nnedpro-iane India & SOUTH ASIA regional Network
Active since 2014, the NNEdPro-IANE India & South Asia Regional Network is a collaboration of dietitians, doctors, academics, medical and health educators, researchers, students, professional associations and other key stakeholders across India. NNEdPro manages its key activities in India via the Laketown Scientific Research and Clinicians Association (Remedy Clinic Study Group [RCSG]) based in Kolkata, India. The RCSG is a non-governmental organisation with independent governance and in an exclusive partnership as the principal Indian agency of the NNEdPro headquartered in the UK. Since 2020, the Network also has representation from Bangladesh and Nepal.
The Strategic Goals for the India Network are:
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Medical Nutrition Education
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Nutrition Research and Education for Food Systems Education
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‘Non-Communicable’ Disease and Malnutrition Prevention
Activities
Articles & Newsletters
To learn more about the India network and the work going on, please browse through the following Articles & Newsletters about the network.
Combatting COVID-19 blog in Indian languages mapped to areas of NNEdPro work
key people & partners
Steering Committee Members - India
​Network Co-Leads
Kannan Raman
Sucheta Mitra
Dr Pallavi Bardhar (Deputy Lead)
Dr Ramya Rajaram (Deputy Lead)
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Operation Officer and Project Secretary
Debashis Chakraborty
Operation and Academic Officer, MTK Project Officer, Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator
Harmanpreet Kaur
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Assistant Operation and Academic Officer, MTK Assistant Project Officer & Nutritionist
Asim Kumar Manna
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Principal Advisors
Mitali Paladhi
Dr (Prof) Sabyasachi Ray
Subrata Kumar Dutta
Sudeshna Maitra-Nag
Prof Suprakash Pradhan
Dr Urmil Verma
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Specialist Advisors & Educational Supervisors
Mitali Gupta
Chitra Ray
Elizabeth Suchitra Richard
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NB: We would like to acknowledge the contributions of our colleague the late Sanchita Banerjee. Find out more here.
Steering Committee Members - UK/global
Strategic & Scientific Co-Leads
Prof Pauline Douglas
Prof Sumantra Ray
Principal Advisors
Lord Diljit Rana OBE
Prof Ianthi Tsimpli
Dr Luke Buckner
Dr Minha Rajput-Ray​
Specialist Advisors
Dr Marjorie Lima do Vale
Jodie Webber
Jorgen Torgerstuen Johnsen
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Members
Matheus Abrantes
Dr Harrison Carter
Sukanya Patwardhan
Dr Shilpa Nagarajan
Dr Shivani Bhatt
Ville Paivansalo
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*On leave of absence
Members - India
Dr Anand Ahankari
Dr Anuprita Shukla
Aparajita Saha
Dr Arundhita Bhanjdeo
Dr Ayusmati Thakur
Atanu Chakraborty
Bijaya Kumar Nayak
Prof Chittaranjan Yajnik
Prof Gitanjali Yadav
Kashmira Ghosh
Mala Mukherjee
Dr Manash Chatterjee
Dr Maneesh Mishra
Marla Fuchs
Narayani Rajashree Kanungo
Piya Sengupta
Dr Rekha Bhangaonkar
Rituraj Phukan
Dr Sagarika Mukherjee
Sarmila Mukherjee
Dr Shobhana Nagraj
Shuvajit Chakraborty
Sneha Deshpande
Dr Somnath Bhar
Prof Souvik Banerjee
Sukanya Patwardhan
Swaroop Balakrishna Uday
Members from 'TIGR2ESS' (Flagship Project-6) Partner Organisations
[From 1st April to 31st December 2022 the NNEdPro India & South Asia Regional Network will host a Post FP6 Collaborative Forum]
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
Prof Srijit Mishra*
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*Previously representing Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS) Odisha and Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (Wassan)
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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Hyderabad
Dr R Padmaja
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Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Dr Krishnan Narayanan
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Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS)
Dr Shubhasree Shankar
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MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)
Vivek Girija
Rengalakshmi
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National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) Cambridge
Dr Lydia Smith
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Panjab University
Prof Ramanjit Kaur Johal
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Charities Aid Foundation India
Dr Nivedita Narain
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University of Cambridge
Prof Shailaja Fennell
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University of East Anglia
Prof Nitya Rao
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Vertiver
Chhaya Bhanti
Aakriti Wanchoo
Members - Nepal & Bangladesh
Representatives from Nepal
Dr Buddhiman Sreshtha
Dr Santosh Gaihre
Representatives from Bangladesh
Mohammad Sayeem
Dr Sohana Shafique
Members from key indian organisations Partner Organisations
Bhavishya Shakti Cooperative Society
Champions
Anumati Saradar
Chandana Naiya
Kanika Das
Kanika Mondal
Mousumi Naiya*
Puja Purkait
Sukla Karmakar**
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Trainee Champions
Madhumita Dey
Moumita Biswas
Tapasi Patra
Calcutta Rescue
Dr Marcello Scopazzini
Dr Alakananda Ghosh
Dr Esther Sulkers
Jaydeep Chakraborty
Shibani Basu
Rumiya Mukherjee
Dr Jaydeep Majumder
Cordia Colleges Punjab
Dr Harjinder Singh
Taruna Narang
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IGNOU
Dr Heena Bijli
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Panjab University Management Studies
Dr Monika Aggarwal
Jaswinder Singh
Prof Suveera Gill
Bharti Goel
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Daily9
Kannan Raman
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The Nurture Academy Welfare Trust
Suprakash Pradhan
Saundaria Chatterjee
Madhumita Pal
Remedy Clinic Study Group (NNEdPro Agency in India) & Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (Indian Academy)
Dr (Prof) Sabyasachi Ray***
Sudeshna Maitra-Nag***
Debashis Chakraborty***
* Temporarily change of role
** On maternity leave
*** Also members of the India/Global Steering Committee
The Regional Networks are overseen by Advisory and Facilitation Panels.