Bharati Kulkarni
Institution: ICMR- National Institute of Nutrition, India
Workpackage: Country Lead - India
Email: kulkarni.bharati@icmr.gov.in
Focus of research:Conducting research in India, project implementation, annual plans and budgets, and overseeing the quality of reporting as well as representing the project before host governments, donors and project stakeholders.
Dr Bharati Kulkarni is Senior Grade Deputy Director at National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India. Her research focuses on ways to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable population groups, especially women and children. She has carried out studies on public health nutrition problems including management of severe acute malnutrition in children, body composition, nutritional interventions to improve maternal nutrition, agriculture-nutrition linkages, and agricultural interventions to improve nutritional status of women and children. She earned a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and PhD from Queensland University of Technology, Australia.