Original training at the MS University of Baroda in India before completing an MPH and a DRPH at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in the USA in 1997.
Advanced the field of maternal and child nutrition and micronutrient deficiency prevention in South Asia and in Africa over the past 25 years
Her research, underpinned by community randomized trials, as well as epidemiological studies, has contributed to generating policy-relevant evidence on maternal, infant and child nutrition interventions—for improving the outcomes of pregnancy, including fetal growth, child growth and development
From 2016 to 2019, she was very influential insofar as she worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a senior program officer, leading the strategy and work in women's nutrition with the goal of improving birth outcomes and growth and development in early life
Prodigious list of publications and is a preeminent leader in the field
