General Body Members
The society consists of a general body of members from multi-disciplinary backgrounds committed to community health. Any changes in the mandate of organization are to be approved by general body. General body will meet once in a year to review the progress of the organization. We have a 23 member general body along with 3 honorary members.
Executive Committee
SOCHARA is registered Society, under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 7A (1960). The Society is the supreme authority and endorses all the decisions and developments of the Society. There are seven member Executive Committee (EC) consisting of a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary-Coordinator and three additional members. The executive committee looks after the work of the Society and provides the necessary superintendence and control. The Secretary is the person responsible for the overall functioning of SOCHARA and its units. The Secretary is also the Director/Coordinator of SOCHARA-SOPHEA. Each unit also has Coordinator/s responsible for the respective unit. We have 4 sub committees (FMC, PMU, ARC, SISEC) to feed into the EC.
Executive Committee Members (ECM)
Dr. Pruthvish S
President
Preventive and Social Medicine
Dr. Denis Xavier
Vice-President
Pharmacology
Dr. Adithya Pradyumna
Treasurer
Environmental Science
Ms. Prafulla S
Secretary cum Coordinator
Climate Change, Natural Resources Management
Dr. Susanta Ghosh
Member
Entomologist
Dr. Ganthimathi J
Member
Pediatrician
Dr. A S G R Rahul
Member
Pediatrics and Community Health
General Body Members (GBM)
Dr. Mohan Isaac
Member
Psychiatric and Community Mental Health
Dr. P. Chandra
Member
Child Health
Mr. Sam Joseph
Member
Development
Dr. Arvind Kasturi
Member
Community Health
Dr. Anand Zachariah
Member
Medicine
Dr. Muraleedharan.V.R
Member
Health Economics
Dr. Mani Kalliath
Member
Public Health and Community Mental Health
Mr. Abhijit Sengupta
Member
Former Secretary, Department of Culture, GoI
Prof. Shanmugavelayudham
Member
Social Work
Dr. Neela Patel
Member
Community Medicine
Mr. As Mohammad
Member
Bio-statistics and Demography
Mr. K. Gopinathan
Member
Personnel Management
Dr. K. Ravi Kumar
Member
Public Health
Dr. Thelma Narayan
Member
Epidemiologist, Public Policy
Dr. Kishore Murthy
Member
Health Management
Dr. Sunil Kaul
Member
Public Health
Dr. Edward Premdas Pinto
Member
Social Work and Law
Dr. N. Devadasan
Member
Public Health
Dr. M.K. Vasundhra
Member
Preventive & Social Medicine
Dr. Sr. Aquinas Edassery
Member
Medicine and Community Physician
Ms. Valli Seshan
Member
Development
Dr. Ravi D’Souza
Member
Community Medicine
Mr. Prasanna Saligram
Member
Public Health Researcher
Dr. Ramani Atkuri
Member
Public Health Nutrition
Mr. Prahlad I M
Member
Environmental Science
Mr. Ameer khan
Member
Social Work
Ms. Anjali Noronha
Member
Public Health Researcher
Dr. Priyadarsh
Member
Public Health
Dr. Maya Mascarenhas
Member
Mr. Gurumoorthy. M
Member
IT and Social Development
Dr. Deepthi Shanbhag
Member
Community Health
Dr. Prabir Chatterji
Member
Community Health and Public Health
Dr. G Gururaj
Member
Mental Health and Public Health
Dr. Sai Prasad
Member
Mr. Rajeev Velur
Member
HONORARY MEMBERS
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Honorary Member
Public Health, Industrial Health, Preventive & Social Medicine
Dr. H. Sudarshan
Honorary Member
Community Physician
Mr. A. Arumugam
Honorary Member
Dr. D.K.Srinivasa
Honorary Member
Community Medicine
Fr. John Vattamattam
Honorary Member
Theology
Project Management Unit (PMU)
Ms Prafulla S
Secretary Cum Coordinator
Climate Change, Natural Resources Management
Mr. Ameerkhan K
Member, (Co-Coordinator)
Social Work
Mr. Ravi D’Souza
Member
Biostatistics and Demography
Prahalad IMP
Member (Co-Cordinator)
Environmental Science
Janelle d e sa Fernandes
Member
Finance & Management Committee (FMC)
Dr. Maya Mascarenhas
Member – FMC Chair
Child Health and Community Health
Dr. Adithya Pradyumna
Treasurer
Environmental Science
Ms Prafulla S
Secretary cum Coordinator
Climate Change, Natural Resources Management
SOCHARA Institutional Scientific and Ethics Committee for Review of Research Projects (SISEC)
Dr. Manjulika Vaz
Chairperson
SJRI-SJNAHS- Bangalore
Dr. Arvind Kasturi
Member
SJNAHS, Bangalore
Janelle Fernandes
Member Secretary
Mr. As Mohammad
Bio-statistics and Demography
Member
Ritash
Member
Arvind Narrain
Member
Dr Sushi Kadanakuppe
Member
Rev. Dr. Christopher Vimalraj
Member
Dr. Edward Premdas Pinto
Member
Academic Research Council (ARC)
Dr. Thelma Narayan
Chairperson
Senior Advisor – Academics and Health Policy Action
Dr. Mohan Isaac
Member
Psychiatric and Community Mental Health
Dr. Prithvish
Member
Preventive and Social Medicine
Rev. Dr. John Thekkekara
Member
Dr. Ramani Atkuri
Member
Dr. Sunita Bandewar
Member
Dr. Senthil Kumar
Member
Mr Prasanna Saligram
Member
Dr. Maryann Washington
Member
Alfred Raju
Member Secretary