Bhagirath Gop

Curriculum Vitae

Bhagirath Gop

H.No: 5 – 113/1,

Shantinagar, Hydershah Kote, Golconda, Hyderabad – 500 008,

Andhra Pradesh

E-mail: bhagirath_gop@yahoo.com; gop_org@rediffmail.com

Contact Number: 09829352746 (Mob.),

Area of Interest: Community Health and Action Research.

Educational Qualifications:

University/Institution	Degree/Certificate	Year
Institute of Health Systems, Hyderabad	Advanced Studies in Public Health (APH)	2003-2004
Osmania University, Hyderabad	Masters Degree in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work (Gold Medal)	1998-2000
Osmania University, Hyderabad	Bachelor’s Degree in Arts	1995-1998

Experience:

Posts held:	Organization	From	To
Programme Associate	Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Bombay House, Homi Modi Street, Fort, Mumbai	Jan ‘2008	Till Date
Consultant	J.K.Lakshmi Cements Ltd., Sirohi, Rajasthan	Nov ‘2007	Dec ‘2007
Project Coordinator	Seva Mandir, Old Fatehpura, Udaipur, Rajasthan, Ph: 0294-2450960/2452001	Mar ‘2005	Oct ‘2007
Research Associate (Two years on study leave to pursue APH Programme in the same Institute)	Institute of Health Systems, HACA Bhavan, Opp.Public Gardens, Hyderabad Ph. No: 040-23210136	Jan ‘2001	Mar ‘2005
Public Health Trainee	Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (VGKK), Thithimathi, Coorg District, Karnataka	May ‘2003	Aug ‘2003
Junior Consultant	TARU Leading Edge, Jublee Hills, Hyderabad. Ph. No: 040-23608687	July ‘2000	Nov ‘2000
Psychiatric Social Work Trainee	Niloufer Hospital, Red Hills, Hyderabad.	May ‘2000	June ‘2000
Medico-Social Work Trainee	Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. Ph. No: 040-23607777	Sept ‘1999	Mar ‘2000
Field Investigator	AusAid and Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board, Hyderabad.	Mar ‘1999	Apr ‘1999

Projects Worked On:

Project Title

Designation and Work Description

“Improving Health Services and Health Status – An action Research” project,

Seva Mandir, Udaipur

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT looked after Monitoring and Evaluation of the program

Interventions:

1. Improving Immunisation Status,

2. Decentralised Iron Fortification Program: Increasing dietary intake of Iron through fortification of flour at village level chakkis (flour mills),

3. Improving Subcentres Reliability, and

4. Chlorination of open wells.

Project Coordinator:

· Implementation of community based health interventions in 134 villages of 5 blocks in Udaipur district (Design: Randomised Control Trails).

· Budget planning for the interventions

· Working out a strategy for implementation of the programs,

· Holding training programs for the teams involved in the different interventions,

· Conducting awareness generation meetings in the intervention villages,

· Implementing and Monitoring the interventions

· Resolving field level issues by involving community people,

· Working payment system for the community people involved in the programs,

· Maintaining production and supply chain in fortification & immunization intervention,

· Holding monthly review meetings with teams involved in the program (GNM, GNM Assistant, Paraworkers, Chakki Owners, and Government ANMs),

· Liaison with District level Government Functionaries,

· Planning, preparing and facilitating the District core committee meetings (Members include District Collector, Joint Director, CM&HO, Seva Mandir & JPAL - MIT),

· Coordinating with the evaluation teams (JPAL-MIT/Vidya Bhavan) and funding organizations (TATA Trust, ICCO & MacArthur Foundation),

· Working with Management Systems Information (USA) & Population Foundation of India for upscaling the programs (holding workshops, interacting with Govt. functionaries, NGOs and other stakeholders)

· Documentation and report writing on the progress of the interventions

· Maintaining MIS for all the interventions

Public Health Trainee, Primary Health Centre, Thithimathi, Coorg, Karnataka (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra, Karnataka.)

Note: PHC Thithimathi was the first hospital adopted under PPP by Dr. H. Sudarshan

Trainee:

· Had an exposure of three months towards the management of Primary Health Centre (PHC) under Public-Private-Partnership and delivery of Primary Health Care Services in tribal areas, Which includes national health programmes like Immunisation, Family Planning, Safe Motherhood, RNTCP, Malaria Control, Mental Health, etc.

· Field attachment with ANM, Staff Nurse, Pharmacy, Laboratory, De-Addiction Centre and Canteen helped to develop skills in basic health care practices.

· Visits to Anganwadi centers provided me an understanding towards ICDS work.

· Conducted group works among the school children and old age people to monitor & educate regarding various health issues.

Hospital Performance Analysis, APVVP (Andhra Pradesh Vaidhya Vidhan Parishad),

IHS-Hyderabad

Project Coordinator:

· Collection of data from APVVP head quarter for 156 hospitals and analysis of the hospital statistics,

· Planning & coordination of field staff and field visits,

· Validating the information from the field,

· Report writing of the field visits made to various hospitals and

· Editing, compiling & submission of the reports to the project office.

Patient Satisfaction Survey, APVVP,

IHS-Hyderabad

Project Coordinator:

· Work consists of planning and coordinating the teams for field visits,

· Data collection from various hospitals,

· Data entry, analysis, review of available literature on the subject

· Report writing.

Andhra Pradesh Health System Responsiveness study, WHO,

IHS-Hyderabad

Team Leader:

· Planning, coordinating, and assisting the team members for data collection from all over the state,

· Helping in data cleaning at headquarters,

· Literature review on Health State Responsiveness studies.

Family Welfare Linked Health Insurance Policy,

IHS-Hyderabad

Team Member:

· Secondary data collection from existing health Insurance companies,

· Primary data collection from one of the Mandal PHC through meeting the key providers and interviewing the user community to get more idea about Arogya Raksha Scheme.

Andhra Pradesh Health Institutions Data Base (APHIDB),

IHS-Hyderabad

Team Member:

· Updating the APHIDB through making visits to the PHCs & verifying the subcentres and other private health care providers available,

· Interacting with the hospital staff & understanding about the PHC activities and rapport building with the Medical Officers, etc.

Data Validation and Periodic Analysis of Hospital Performance, Maharashtra Health Systems Development Project,

IHS-Hyderabad

Team Member:

· Pilot study to Thane and Murbad hospitals in Maharashtra to understand the MIS,

· Visits to the other project hospitals and verifying the primary and secondary records for validating the data,

· Analysis of the hospital statistics and report writing of the field visits made to various hospitals.

Drought Relief Measures Taken up by Andhra Pradesh Government, UNICEF,

TARU, Hyderabad

Junior Consultant:

· The mission carried out field visits to 6 districts in Andhra Pradesh for primary and secondary data collection on the drought relief work done by various government departments.

· Field visit to a village in each district to understand the implementation of relief activities at grass root level.

Background Paper on Hepatitis B and the Immunization System in Andhra Pradesh, Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation, Children’s Vaccine Program,

TARU, Hyderabad

Junior Consultant:

· The work consists of primary and secondary data collection from Hyderabad, Medak and Nalgonda districts.

· Field visit to meet the health officials at district level and ANMs at subcentre level to understand the cold chain and immunisation system.

· Reports were prepared based on the field visits.

Socioeconomic Impact Assessment Study as Part of the Andhra Pradesh Power Sector Restructuring Program, DFID & A.P. Transco,

TARU, Hyderabad

Team Member:

· Involved in a vast study on field in 7 districts of Andhra Pradesh (rural and urban areas),

· Interviewed around 200 people to understand their socioeconomic status as well as collected the feedback regarding the restructuring process of the power sector.

Community Survey under Hyderabad Waste Management Project by AusAid & APPCB,

College of Social Work, Hyderabad

Team Member:

· Work involved a large number of interviews of household members residing in the industrial belt,

· Finding out the current health problems faced by the community people due to exposure towards the pollution created by industries, and

· Writing background report about the community.

Social Work Trainee,

APOLLO and NILOFOUR Hospitals, Hyderabad

Trainee:

· Pre and Post operative counseling of the patients

· Understanding socio-economic conditions of the patients

· Providing required information to the patient’s attendants (mainly for ICU patients)

· Arranging for financial support to the BPL and poor patients

· Home visits for rehabilitating the patients

· Assessing IQ and DQ of the children

· Part of the of the Flood Relief Team which went to Orrissa from Apollo Hospital (1999)

Participation in workshops and training programs:

Course/workshop title	Institution	Period
Management Consultation on Health Care in India	IIM, Ahmedabad	One Day (Jun’ 2007)
Policy Review Workshop (Advocacy)	PLAN, Delhi	Three Days (Jun’ 2007)
Community Monitoring System	NRHM, Jaipur	One Day (May’ 2007)
Cooperating for People Led Social Protection	GTZ, Pune	One Day (May’ 2007)
Public Private Partnership	RMOL, Jaipur	One Day (Feb’ 2007)
Making Growth Inclusive to Human Development (Health and Education)	IDS, Jaipur	Two Days (Mar’ 2007)
Visioning Workshop for Upscaling Immunisation program	Jointly organized by Population Foundation of India, Management Systems Information (US) & Seva Mandir in Udaipur	Two Days (Dec’ 2006)
Visioning Workshop for Upscaling Immunisation program	Jointly organized by Population Foundation of India, Management Systems Information (US) & Seva Mandir in Udaipur	Three Days (Aug’ 2006)
Sensitisation workshop towards HIV/AIDS	PLAN & Seva Mandir, Udaipur	Three Days (Dec’2005)
Sensitisation workshop for NGOs on heath care services	RHSDP, Udaipur	One Day (2005)
Evaluating Social Programs	Poverty Action Lab (MIT, US) & Centre for Micro Finance Research, IFMR, Chennai	Five Days (Aug’2005)
Universal Registration of Births and Deaths	UNICEF, Jaipur	One Day (2005)
Managing Non-Profit Organisations	Institute of Health Systems	Two Weeks (2004)
Managing Primary Health Care in Remote Areas	Institute of Health Systems	Two Weeks (2003)
Introduction to Epidemiology	Institute of Health Systems	One Week (2001)
Desk Top Navigation For Intra-net	Institute of Health Systems	Four Days (2001)

Publications:

Working paper / report / journal article etc.

Other authors if any

Author’s Role

Patient Satisfaction Survey in APVVP Hospitals,

IHS Internal Publication

Dr.Prasanta Mahapatra

· Assisting the teams,

· Data collection,

· Data analysis,

· Literature review, and

· Report writing.

Improving Village Health Status,

Published in National Journal “Health Action” April, 2005

· Study design,

· Conducting survey in two remote villages of Birni block in Giridih district of Jharkhand,

· Data entry and analysis,

· Literature review, and

· Writing a publishable paper.

Awards, Honours & Sponsorships:

i. Sponsored candidate for Advanced Studies in Public Health (APH) Course by Institute of Health Systems, 2003-2004.

ii. Recipient of Gold Medal, for highest marks scorer in Fieldwork during post graduation in Social Work, 1998-2000.

iii. School House Captain in Class 12^th, Kendriya Vidhyalaya, FCI, Ramagundam, Karimnagar (Dist.), Andhra Pradesh.

Language skills:

Spoken and Written: Hindi, English and Telugu

Mother Tongue: Ttetiya (Jharkhand); also comfortable with Bengali and Kanada

Computing skills:

1. Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows

2. Databases: EpiInfo, Microsoft Access

3. Office Suites: Lotus Smartsuite and Microsoft Office

References:

Ms.Neelima Khetan,

Chief Executive,

Seva Mandir, Fatehpura,

Udaipur – 313 004.

Mob: 09414156960

Mr.Ajay K. Tripathy,

Project Manager,

Voluntary Health Association of India,

New Delhi.

Mob: 09436069489

(Currently on Deputation to Arunachal Pradesh)