Ashish Giri
Research Manager (South East Asia)
Ashish Giri holds an MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine from the University of Oxford and a Master of Health Administration in Public Health from the TATA Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. With over 5 years of dedicated experience, he has been deeply engaged with disadvantaged communities, grassroots organizations, and governmental bodies in India.
In his previous role, Ashish was involved in strategizing the Tribal Health Collaborative - a multi-stakeholder initiative of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (India), BMGF, USAID and the Piramal Foundation that aims to end all preventable deaths among the 104 million indigenous people of India.
Ashish joins the Wellcome Trust Discovery Award on Solidarity in Global Health as a Research Manager and will be managing the research in India and Nepal. Together with the larger team, Ashish will be responsible for the conceptualization of solidarity, particularly within the Indigenous and Himalayan communities of India, Nepal, and the Tibetan population residing in India.