Vanita Singh

Dr. Vanita Singh holds a Ph.D. degree in Public Policy (Public Systems) from IIM Ahmedabad and Masters in Public Health from TISS, Mumbai. She has worked with Reliance Industries Ltd. for the design and implementation of hospital management information system for RIL Project: Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai. She was awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Social Medicine and Community Health by UGC in the year 2013. She is currently working as a co-investigator on multiple projects in the healthcare domain funded by WHO and Department of Science & Technology (DST). She serves as a mentor at The George Institute (TGI) for Global Health India Health Accelerator Programme.

Her research interests include health systems & policy analysis, policy design and implementation, technology & development, and gender & health. She has published her work in several ABDC listed and SCOPUS indexed journals. She has presented her work at various prestigious national and international conferences including, Sixth Asia Pacific Public Policy Network (AP-PPN) in 2021, Hong Kong; 16th World Congress on Public Health in 2020 organized by European Public Health Association; XV International Conference of Public Policy and Management (2020), Centre for Public Policy (CPP) IIM Bangalore; and Fourth Pan-IIM World Management Conference (2015). Prior to joining MDI, she was working as Assistant Professor (Public Policy) at VPSM, D Y Patil University, Navi Mumbai, and as a visiting faculty at School of Health System Studies, TISS, Mumbai.

Teaching

Public Management; Public Policy- Design and Implementation; Behavioural Approach to Public Policy; Policy Analysis – An Integrated Approach; Management of Public Health Services; Health Policy and Planning.

Research

Technical Reports

World Health Organization. (2021). Leveraging telehealth for efficient delivery of primary health care in the WHO South-East Asia Region.

Journal Articles

• Singh, Vanita & Garg, Amit. (2022). Patients’ Perception of Service Quality and Satisfaction: Moderating Role of Insurance Status. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management. Vol. 17(2)
• Singh, Vanita; Sarbadhikari, Suptendra Nath; Jacob, Anil G.; John, Oommen. (2022). Challenges in delivering primary care via telemedicine during COVID-19 pandemic in India, Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. Vol. 11 (6) p 2581-2588. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1559_21
• Vanita Singh, & Karan Babbar (2022). Empowered but abused? A moderated mediation analysis to explore the relationship between wife's relative resources, relational empowerment and physical abuse. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 296.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114766
• Singh, Vanita, Garg, Amit, Laha, Arnab, O’Neill Stephen (2021). Publicly Financed Health Insurance Schemes and Horizontal Inequity in Inpatient Service Use in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management. Vol. 16(1) https://journal.achsm.org.au/index.php/achsm/article/view/443/413
• Singh, Vanita, & Dev, Vedant (2021). Telemedicine Adoption in India: Identifying Factors Affecting Intention to Use. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics. Vol. 16(4).
• Singh, Vanita (September, 2020). Promoting Antenatal Care: Identifying Policy Levers in Indian Context. European Journal of Public Health. [Supplementary issue for the abstracts selected for the 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020]. https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/30/Supplement_5/ckaa165.725/5913575
• Singh, Vanita. (2019). Analyzing Public Health Expenditure under NRHM in Low and High Preforming States. International Journal of Advance and Innovative Research. Vol 6 Issue 1 (XI). January-March 2019. [UGC CARE –II listed journal]
• Singh, Vanita, & Sivakami, M. (2014). Menopause: Midlife Experiences of Low Socio-economic Strata Women in Haryana. Sociological Bulletin, 63(2), 263–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038022920140205 [SCOPUS indexed and UGC listed journal]

Consultancy

The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi. Projects: WHO Telehealth care project and India Health Accelerator programme.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Management Development Institute, Gurgaon (2022)
• Visiting Assistant Professor School of Health Systems Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2021)
• Consultant Digital Health Policy The George Institute for Global Health (2021)
• Assistant Professor Public policy D Y Patil University Vijay Patil School of Management (2021 — 2022)
• Doctoral Fellow IIM Ahmedabad (2015 — 2021)
• Hospital Information System Reliance Industries Limited - Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital (2013 — 2015)
• student T.I.S.S. MUMBAI (2011 — 2013)
• Internee Self Employed Womens Assosiation (SEWA, Ahmedabad) (2012 — 2012)
• Trainee physio (Rehab) All india istitute of physical medicine and rehabilitation, haji ali, Mumbai (2010 — 2011)