Nandini Oomman joined CGD in March 2006 as the director of the HIV/AIDS Monitor, which tracks the effectiveness of the three main aid responses to the epidemic: the Global Fund, the HIV/AIDS Africa MAP program of the World Bank, and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Nandini manages the initiative and oversees much of the research program that underpins it. She has more than 15 years of public health research, program and policy experience, with emphasis on population, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

Before receiving her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Nandini managed an urban HIV/AIDS prevention program for commercial sex workers and college youth in Mumbai, India and led the technical development of an HIV/AIDS mass media campaign in the same city. In 1996, a post-doctoral fellowship took her to the Rockefeller Foundation where she managed technical assistance for a research grants program on improving reproductive health service delivery in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. From 2002-2004, Nandini worked as a specialist in population, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS issues at the World Bank.

Just before joining CGD, she consulted with private foundations in the US as an independent researcher. As part of this work, she examined issues of population and reproductive health assistance within the larger ODA landscape, for the Packard Foundation. She has published widely on issues concerning reproductive and women’s health including Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of Improving Maternal Health: Determinants, Interventions and Challenges and A Review of Population, Reproductive Health, and Adolescent Health & Development in Poverty Reduction Strategies, both for the World Bank.

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