Sujata Rana, MPH

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Sujata Rana is an HIV/AIDS specialist with over 17 years of experience designing and implementing HIV and other health programs including Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) and nutrition globally. She received a BA in Oriental Studies from Oxford University in the U.K. and an MPH in International Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. She started her career working in rural Nepal on a women's literacy program before co-founding the first harm reduction program in Asia working with injection drug users in Kathmandu.

Ms. Rana has extensive experience in developing implementation strategies for engaging Most-At-Risk Populations (MARPs) such as sex workers, injecting-drug users, orphans and vulnerable children. She served as HIV/AIDS & Substance Use Adviser at the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS providing technical assistance to WHO member’s states, other UN agencies and NGO partners. She has designed and implemented Vitamin A and Safe Motherhood programming in five districts in Nepal with Helen Keller International. Currently she is CHF International’s Senior Health Advisor providing technical direction to public health programming including multi-sectoral approaches to HIV/AIDS, behavior change-related HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, orphans and vulnerable children, counseling and testing, integrated care, support, treatment and adherence. She lives with her husband in Columbia, Maryland.