Profile
- Name : Dr. KUNAL PISE
- Designation : Scientist E
- Division : Implementation research
- Email ID : [email protected]
- Area Of Interest : CORE COMPETENCIES:Project Management,Healthcare Development Programmes,Advocacy,Program Analysis,Operations Management,Liaison &Coordination,Capacity Building,Training & Development,Strategy Planning,Team Building & Leadership,Quantitative and Qualitative Research,Medical Writing,Database Management
- Completed and Ongoing Projects
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PROFILE SUMMARY
·Result oriented professional with more than 12 years of experience in Planning and directing projects of public health significance to impact the lives of people
·Advocate for innovative changes with the state government for improving quality of services in the field of MNH, Private sector partnership, family planning and TB
·Providing managerial and technical insight for envisioning, planning, developing, implementing and evaluating the programs at State, Districts and sub-district level
·Advocating for innovative approaches with the national and the state governments for impacting programmatic changes for quality in service delivery
·A resourceful, certified trainer with experience of imparting trainings and orientations for medical(Professional, Graduates and Post-graduates) and para-medical personnel in areas of MNH, Family planning, TB, TB -HIV and counselling
·Handled and managed large database in the field of TB, Family Planning (IUCD) and Private sector initiative
·Executed large health project on TB in RNTCP, TB research, MNH and Family Planning
·Successfully liaised with the State government , Organisation, INGOs and NGOs and developed successful partnership with them
·Team builder, mentor and manager of administrative works in coordination with other team members and sub-ordinates
·Demonstrated strong research acumen in Medical and social perspective especially in the areas of TB, DR-TB, Family Planning and MNH
·Developed innovative methods for effective project management, monitoring, evaluation and documentation for dissemination to internal and external stakeholders
·Scientist at ICMR-NITVAR with inclination for Implementation research for Public Health Good. Currently working on Models for HCV Care
- Awards and Honours
- Work Experience
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Position
Group/Division
From
To
Working as Scientist ‘E’
Delivery, Implementation and Other AIDS Research, ICMR-NITVAR, Pune
9th September 2025
Till date
Working as Scientist ‘E’
Epidemiology, NIV, ICMR Pune
13th October 2021
8th September 2025
State program manager (Maharashtra)
Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins affiliate,
December 2016
12th October 2021
Senior Program officer
Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins affiliate,
September 2014
December 2016
Consultant WHO RNTCP
WHO-RNTCP TB Technical Assistance Project
April 2009
September 2014
- List of Grant Recieved
- Conference/Training/Workshop Attended
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Trainings and workshops:
Successfully completed following training and attended workshops in various areas-
- Mid carrier management development programme for ICMR Scientist at IIM Visakhapatnam from 17th to 29th November 2025
- Capacity building workshops for Virus Diseases Outbreak Response and Collaborative Research Proposal development and Collaborative Research Proposal Development under World Bank funded PMABHIM
- 12th Training Programme on Financial Management in Scientific Organizations by IIPA New Delhi, Department of Science and Technology GOI, India
- Consultative Zonal Workshop for Virus Disease & Research prioritization at four Zonal NIVs under PMABHIM
- Represented Jhpiego India at the International Annual Partner’s meet for Advance family planning (AFP) in Baltimore, USA in March 2017 and April 2019 in Mumbai India
- Have completed the Supervisor Curriculum course offered by Jhpiego
- Qualified trainer for IUCD by Jhpiego and certified national facilitator for AFP’s SMART for family planning
- Trained in Epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response (EPPR) by WHO.
- Trained in Management and information for action (MIFA) at National tuberculosis institute, Bangaluru.
- Special training of Master trainers & update training on NIKSHAY, ICT application organized by the RNTCP & WHO-TA
- Participated in the training on the RNTCP TB Xpert Project supported by WHO, STOP TB Partnership and UNITAID
- Attended IPC-WHO Country Office (India) National Workshop on Pharmacovigilance & Introduction of Pharmacovigilance Programme of India Toolkit
- Attended the Workshop on Scientific Paper writing by WHO Country Office
- Number of Publications : 1
- List of Publications
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1)Nutritional status and morbidity profile of institutionalized children in an urban slum of Mumbai city, Asian Journal of Medical Research
