Blessina Amulya Kumar

Career goal: To continue enhancing public health awareness and support through strategic leadership and innovative solutions. My endeavour is to reach the unreached, build capacity and empower people at the community level and policy advocacy at the macro level.

I am an International Public Health Consultant and Community Engagement Expert with extensive experience in leading and managing initiatives to amplify community engagement and strengthen the capacity of TB activists globally. A health advocate and a public health professional, with a degree in Nursing and Midwifery and additional qualifications in health systems management and TB, with experience of working with varied marginalised communities across the globe, with a focus on India, the Sudan, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam. Adept at public health advocacy, policy writing, programme evaluation, stakeholder management, and effective communication. I am committed to shaping people-centred and rights-based global health responses while advocating for increased resources for research and community mobilisation.

• CAB Member, UNITE4TB Consortium-ELF, 01/01/21, Present
• CAB Member, UNITAID -Benefit Kids Project-Stellenbosch University Cape Town, 01/01/19, Present
• Co Chair, ICMR India Community Advisory Board, 01/01/19, Present
• Lead, Expert group- Developing National Strategy for Ending TB Stigma and Discrimination- India, 12/01/19, Present
• Member, Revised WHO Civil Society Task Force, 01/01/18, Present
• Co-Founder and Core Group member, India working Group on Health Advocacy, 01/01/18, Present
• Founder and Advisory Board Member, 'Touched by TB' National Coalition of People affected by TB in India, 01/01/17, Present
• Founder Member and Steering Committee Member, ACT AP! (Activists Coalition for TB Asia Pacific), 01/01/17, Present
• Steering Committee Member, GFAN AP, 01/01/17, 01/01/19
• Member -Board of Directors, International Union for TB and Lung and Disease, 01/01/17, 01/01/19
• Trustee, TB Alert India