Uttara Bharath Kumar, MHS is a senior program officer at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has over 30 years of experience in global public health practice in Africa and Asia on a wide range of public health issues ranging from HIV, TB and RNMCH to non-communicable diseases, cancers and mental health.
She teaches atJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has led SBC training in 20 countries. She has numerous conference presentations and publications to her credit. She is an advisory board member for the Gupta Klinsky India Institute (GKII) and a member of the Technical Advisory Group at the World Health Organization on Behavioral Sciences for Better Health. She was instrumental in founding and mentoring three SBC-focused NGOs – Nalamdana, Zambia Center for Communication Programs, Center for Communication and Change – India.
She earned her MHS in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BA in English from Wellesley College.