Biography

Rohit is Founder & Principal at Antara Global Health Advisors, a Canadian-based consultancy that provides clients with global health expertise. He is a Doctor of Public Health candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Public Health Advisor & Principal Investigator at ColaLife, serves on the Advisory Board of Raising the Village, and is a member of the UN Innovation Working Group under the Every Woman, Every Child Initiative.

Rohit’s leadership in global health and development has focused on health systems and global health delivery, including the development, implementation and evaluation of public health interventions throughout the world. He has worked in areas such as child health, health market innovation, public-private partnerships (PPPs), preventable blindness, and infectious diseases like malaria and TB. His current research focuses on childhood diarrhea and will test to what extent piggy-backing essential medicines on the Coca-Cola supply-chain can improve availability, access, and utilization for the rural poor. Rohit completed his MPH at Boston University and his B.Sc. in Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo. He is an alumnus of multiple Canadian leadership programs such as Shad Valley, the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, and the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference.