Uttara Bharath Kumar

Uttara Bharath Kumar has over 29 years’ experience in public health and social and behaviour change communication. Currently, as Senior Social and Behavior Change and Capacity Strengthening Advisor, she has been with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs since 1997. Among other global programmes, she and her team also support the Bernard van Leer Foundation in India, bringing a behavioural lens to their work. She has led numerous well recognised and award-winning training programmes and global health communication initiatives. She holds a master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.