Chapal Mehra

Chapal Mehra

Director

Chapa Mehra is Director, Global Health Strategies Emerging Economies, New Delhi. He has worked for several years in the areas of health and development . He was a founder trustee of The Humrahi Trust, a nonprofit trust for gay and bisexual men in New Delhi and has worked extensively with vulnerable populations including sex workers, truckers and  sexual minorities particularly studying sexual behavior,  community practices and HIV interventions targeted at them.

Chapal holds a masters in international health from New York University and a masters in Applied Psychology from Jamia Millia Islamia.  He is also the author of Policy Landscape and Think Tanks in India, a report that examines the role of think tanks in the policy formation in India and The Story of Aastha, a report on a successful an HIV intervention targeted at sex workers.  He has been previously published and continues to research and write on issues such as microfinance, policy processes, HIV and tuberculosis.

In a previous life Chapal worked in publishing and held senior editorial positions at Penguin, Oxford University Press and Sage Publications. He is also an occasional writer on art, travel and social issues. He is now and has been for a long time a closet writer of bad fiction.