Dr Kumar will advise on developing a global strategy and help scale WISH USA's technology

Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (WISH) Foundation USA has announced that Dr Rakesh Kumar has agreed to be associated with the WISH Foundation USA as Chief Consultant – Global Health.

In this role, Dr Kumar will advise on developing a global strategy and help scale WISH USA's technology and AI-enabled public health delivery model to under-resourced regions of the Global South.

A Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, a Fellow of Global Health Leadership Program at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a senior member of the premier Indian Administrative Service, Dr Kumar has a distinguished career spanning over three decades while working in the policy and program implementation space at senior levels with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India, State Govts, UN agencies.

He brings a wealth of experience and expertise to WISH Foundation USA. While at the helm, Dr Kumar was instrumental in polio eradication (2014) and maternal & neonatal tetanus elimination (2015) and was the chief architect of the world's largest immunisation programme, Mission Indradhanush (2015). He also facilitated the expansion of the vaccine basket by introducing six new vaccines in India in a record period. He pioneered the concept of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) and scaled it up across India.

Keywords: Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (WISH) Foundation USA, Dr Rakesh Kumar