Governance

General Body Members

The society consists of a general body of members from multi-disciplinary backgrounds committed to community health. Any changes in the mandate of organization are to be approved by general body. General body will meet once in a year to review the progress of the organization. We have a 23 member general body along with 3 honorary members.

Executive Committee

SOCHARA is registered Society, under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 7A (1960). The Society is the supreme authority and endorses all the decisions and developments of the Society. There are seven member Executive Committee (EC) consisting of a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary-Coordinator and three additional members. The executive committee looks after the work of the Society and provides the necessary superintendence and control. The Secretary is the person responsible for the overall functioning of SOCHARA and its units. The Secretary is also the Director/Coordinator of SOCHARA-SOPHEA. Each unit also has Coordinator/s responsible for the respective unit. We have 4 sub committees (FMC, PMU, ARC, SISEC) to feed into the EC.

Executive Committee Members (ECM)

Dr. Pruthvish S
President
Preventive and Social Medicine

Dr. Denis Xavier
Vice-President
Pharmacology

Dr. Maya Mascarenhas
Treasurer
Pediatrics and Community Health

Mr. Gurumoorthy M
Secretary cum Coordinator
Social Work / Engineering

Dr. Susanta Ghosh
Member-EC
Entomologist

Dr. Adithya Pradyumna
Member
Environmental Science

Dr. Ganthimathi J
Member
Pediatrician

General Body Members (GBM)

Dr. Mohan Isaac
Member
Psychiatric and Community Mental Health

Dr. H. Sudarshan
Member
Community Physician

Dr. P. Chandra
Member
Child Health

Mr. Sam Joseph
Member
Development

Dr. Anand Zachariah
Member
Medicine

Dr. Muraleedharan.V.R
Member
Health Economics

Dr. Mani Kalliath
Member
Public Health and Community Mental Health

Mr. Abhijit Sengupta
Member
Former Secretary, Department of Culture, GoI

Prof. Shanmugavelayudham
Member
Social Work

Dr. Madhukar Pai
Member
Epidemiology / Community Medicine

Dr. Neela Patel
Member
Community Medicine

Mr. As Mohammad
Member
Bio-statistics and Demography

Mr. K. Gopinathan
Member
Personnel Management

Dr. K. Ravi Kumar
Member
Public Health

Dr. Thelma Narayan
Member
Epidemiologist, Public Policy

Dr. Kishore Murthy
Member
Health Management

Dr. Sunil Kaul
Member
Public Health

Dr Edward Premdas Pinto
Member
Social Work and Law

Dr. N. Devadasan
Member
Public Health

Dr. Ravi Narayan
Member
Public Health, Industrial Health, Preventive & Social Medicine

Dr. M.K. Vasundhra
Member
Preventive & Social Medicine

Dr. Sr. Aquinas Edassery
Member
Medicine and Community Physician

Ms. Valli Seshan
Member
Development

Dr. Ravi D’Souza
Member
Community Medicine

Mr. A. Arumugam
Honorary Member

Dr. D.K.Srinivasa
Honorary Member
Community Medicine

Fr. John Vattamattam
Honorary Member
Theology

Mr. Prasanna Saligram
Public Health Researcher

Dr. Ramani Atkuri
Public Health Nutrition

Dr. Lalit Narayan
Medical Anthropologist

Mr. Prahlad I M
Environmental Science

Mr. Ameer khan
Social Work

Ms. Anjali Noronha
Public Health Researcher

Dr. Priyadarsh
Public Health

Dr. Rahul ASGR
Public Health

Project Management Unit (PMU)

Mr Gurumoorthy M
Secretary Cum Coordinator
Chair

Mr. Ameerkhan K
Member (Co-Coordinator, SOCHARA)
Social Work

Mr. Ravi D’Souza
CPHE Bhopal Unit Coordinator
Biostatistics and Demography

Prahalad IMP
Member (Co-Cordinator, SOCHARA)
Environmental Science

Mr Karthikeyan K
Associate Director, Academics

Finance & Management Committee (FMC)

Mr. As Mohammad
Bio-statistics and Demography
Chair

Dr. Maya Mascarenhas
Member – Treasurer SOCHARA
Child Health and Community Health

Mr. Gurumoorthy M
Member – Secretary cum Coordinator SOCHARA
Social Work / Engineering

SOCHARA Institutional Scientific and Ethics Committee for Review of Research Projects (SISEC)

Dr. Manjulika Vaz
Chairperson
SJRI-SJNAHS- Bangalore

Dr. Arvind Kasturi
Member
SJNAHS, Bangalore

Janelle Fernandes
Member Secretary

Mr. As Mohammad
Bio-statistics and Demography
Member

Pushpa Achanta
Member

Dr Sushi Kadanakuppe
Member

Rev. Dr. Christopher Vimalraj
Member

Dr Edward Premdas Pinto
Member

Academic Research Council (ARC)

Dr. Thelma Narayan
Chairperson
Senior Advisor – Academics and Health Policy Action

Mr Karthikeyan K
Member Secretary

Dr. Mohan Isaac
Member
Psychiatric and Community Mental Health

Dr. Prithvish
Member
Preventive and Social Medicine

Rev. Dr. John Thekkekara
Member

Dr. Ramani Atkuri
Member

Dr. Sunita Bandewar
Member

Dr. Senthil Kumar
Member

Mr Prasanna Saligram
Member

Dr. Maryann Washington
Member