Radhika Shrivastav is the Senior Director, HRIDAY, an India-based non-profit organisation engaged in multi-disciplinary research, capacity building and campaigns linked to the prevention and control of NCDs. She is the Convenor and Governing Board Member, Healthy India Alliance – HIA (India NCD Alliance); Member of the 3rd WHO Civil Society Working Group on NCDs; Co-chair of the Taskforce on Women and NCDs. For over two decades, Radhika’s work has focussed on addressing NCDs from a health and development perspective, with a strong focus on meaningful involvement of civil society organisations, youth, people living with NCDs and the community at-large. Her work involves augmenting CSO engagement for prioritising multi-stakeholder action for mitigation of air pollution as a risk factor for NCDs in India and building a public narrative around air pollution as a health/NCDs issue. She has extensive experience in multi-pronged research and evidence-based health promotion interventions that have informed NCD policies and programmes, including inclusion of meaningful involvement of people living with NCDs in India’s National Programme on NCD Prevention and Control. Radhika has recently led the completion of an NCD equity assessment to develop the Report on NCDs and Health Equity in India

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