Uttara Bharath Kumar, MHS is a senior program officer at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has over 30 years of experience in global public health practice in Africa and Asia on a wide range of public health issues ranging from HIV, TB and RNMCH to non-communicable diseases, cancers and mental health. She currently leads CCP’s role as on the UK Government-funded, Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH2) project led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in seven East and Southern African countries. She is also a team leader for CCP’s work in India. 

She teaches at BSPH and has led SBC trainings in 20 countries. She has numerous conference presentations and publications to her credit. She is an advisory board member for the Gupta Klinsky India Institute (GKII) and a member of the Technical Advisory Group at the World Health Organization on Behavioral Sciences for Better Health. She was instrumental in founding and mentoring three SBC-focused NGOs – Nalamdana, Zambia Center for Communication Programs, Center for Communication and Change – India.

Bharath Kumar earned her MHS in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BA in English from Wellesley College.