CHETNA Team

Dr Neeta Shah is a Homoeopathic doctor by profession and working in the field of social development and public health since last 19 years. She has more than 15 years of training experience in the field of Nutrition, SRH, Life Skills education, and HIV. At CHETNA,  she is coordinating the adolescent health and development programme. Her key expertise is in program planning and management and research. She played an important role in mainstreaming the approaches and health communication material developed as a part of CHETNA’s adolescent health programmes in  Gujarat State government programme –Mamta Taruni. As a part of this process, she trained a pool of service providers in Sabarkantha districts who are in turn are imparting health education among the school going adolescents. She collected voices of young people to feed in the process of National Youth Policy Formulation. She has presented the work of CHETNA especially in adolescent health at the State, National and International levels.   

Tarnistha Ray has done graduation in Public Health from Leeds University (United Kingdom), having 14 years experience of working in the health and social care sector. She has worked with Seva Mandir Udaipur, Rajasthan and Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan  (KMVS ) Gujarat. From 2015 onwards she is working as a Project Coordinator at CHETNA. Having a deep understanding of the field reality, at present she coordinates projects related to Early Childhood Education and Development, Child Health and Nutrition. Her core competencies include project management and training. Presently she is a member of DSMB (Data Safety and Monitoring Board- DSMB) and Institutional Ethical Committee at Sewa Rural Jhagadia.

Ms. Shilpa Choksi has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (Finance) and has undergone a short course on Labour Law. She has more than 34 years of experience in Development Field with special focus on administration and finance. She is working with CHETNA since March 2003 as an Administrative Officer with the portfolio of Administration and Finance both. She plays a crucial link between the management and other projects as well as administrative and accounts team. She has in the past worked as Finance Officer cum Administrator – Janvikas and Accountant cum assistant administrator – St. Xavier’s College (Behavioural Science Centre), Ahmedabad