Dr. Rajat Goyal has joined IAVI as the Country Director for India. He comes to IAVI with a wide array of experience. He was, until recently, Vice President at ICON Clinical Research where he was responsible for managing ICON's clinical operations in the Asia- Pacific Region. He has held the post of the Global Project Director for the Advancing Rotavirus Vaccine Development Project at PATH.
He was also in charge
of product development for a wide
range of new vaccines and other health
technologies. He developed and managed
viable public-private sector partnerships
for sustainable, culturally ethical
and adaptive health interventions.
Dr. Goyal also served as Vice President
of Reliance Life Sciences heading the
Reliance Clinical Research Services in
Mumbai, India. Before that, he was
Medical Advisor with Dabur India Ltd.
Dr. Goyal received his medical degree
from King Edwards Memorial Hospital in
Mumbai. He specialised as a hemato
oncologist. In addition, he was a research
fellow at Rush Cancer Institute in Chicago
and a visiting fellow at Beth Israel
Hospital in Boston and Royal Marsden
Hospital in the UK.
As the new Director of Programme Operations for IAVI India, Neeta Vinay will provide financial, administrative, human resources and operational management support to the regional office. Neeta has 25 years of work experience in private, public and non-profit sectors. Before joining IAVI, she worked as the national programme officer at the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
She was the Asian Regional
Operations head for IntraHealth International
Inc. She administered programmes
in Yemen, Oman, Bangladesh, Indonesia
and India. Neeta established systems
for PATH's exponential growth.
Neeta has consulted on strategy development,
performance planning, human
resources, financial management and
proposal development with a wide
range of international organisations, among
them Save the Children, Population Services
International, Packard Foundation,
PA Consulting Group, Mott MacDonald,
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
Institute of One World Health.
She studied business management at
the India Institute of Management
and graduated from Lady Irwin College
in New Delhi.
The intended audience for this
initiative includes organisations
and individuals currently involved
or interested in helping to
fulfill global health objectives.
Stakeholders are encouraged
to submit an idea for a case study
at
http://www.casestudiesforglobalhealth.
org/.
Stakeholders
include private funders,
international and multilateral
organisations, universities and
non-profit research centers,
pharmaceutical and biotech
companies, public private partnerships,
non-governmental organizations,
and governments.
