Niharika Suresh Resume

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Niharika Suresh

Betul, Madhya Pradesh- 460001 | +918383917544 | [email protected] | LinkedIn

EDUCATION
● Young India Fellowship-
Postgraduate Diploma in Liberal Studies| Ashoka University Aug 2021- Jul 2022
● Bachelors of Arts Honors in Sociology | Dayalbagh Educational Institute Jul 2020 – May 2021
● Bachelors of Arts | Dayalbagh Educational Institute Jul 2018– May 2020

WORK EXPERIENCE
Program Officer | The Antara Foundation January 2024 – Present
● Spearheading the management of quality delivery of key services for pregnant women and
children given by the health department and the women and child development department at
block level.
● Organizing and analyzing large raw government data sets to identify coverage and quality of
maternal and child health indicators and discussing gaps and resolutions with block and
district administration.
● Managing interdepartmental coordination in service delivery and review of key indicators through
joint field visits and joint sector-level review meetings.
● Building structures and systems of review along with community health officers and sector
supervisors to ensure systematic review and monitoring of service delivery.

Program Fellow | The Antara Foundation August 2022 – December 2023


● Regularly monitored key maternal and child health services including routine immunization of
children and Antenatal check ups of pregnant women in Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition
Day in 40+ villages.
● Facilitated 50+ meetings of frontline workers to enable better data reporting of end-to-end
maternal child health services provided by 200+ frontline workers across 2 development blocks.
● Led the capacity building of over 200+ public health frontline workers in maternal and child
health and nutrition themes through mass trainings and on-field hand holding
● Spearheaded a study to identify reasons causing the prevalence of home deliveries through
in-depth interviews and cross-sectional surveys of 97 respondents across stakeholders
including frontline workers, pregnant women, lactating women, relatives of the former two
stakeholders, traditional birth attendants and traditional healers across 22 health and
wellness centers and 22 villages.
● Designed detailed questionnaires for in-depth interviews and developed surveys for each
stakeholder group on ODK, an open source data collection platform to facilitate cross sectional
surveys.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
● Microsoft Office- Expert Proficiency
● Qualitative Research- Expert Proficiency
● ODK (Open Data Kit)- Expert Proficiency
● Power BI- Basic Proficiency
● Python- Basic Proficiency

PROJECTS & RESEARCH WORK


● Conducted in-depth interviews of a member of Durga Vahini, the women’s wing of Vishwa Hindu
Parishad to explore the intersection of faith and political ideology under the support and
guidance of Professor Urvashi Butalia.

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