Aditi Kulkarni

Aditi Kulkarni (Pune, Maharashtra, India) is a public health professional with an interdisciplinary background spanning pharmaceutical sciences and public health. She completed her schooling in Maharashtra, which grounded her early understanding of India’s social and health system diversity. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and a Master of Public Health from the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, where her training emphasized epidemiology, health systems, mixed-methods research, and policy analysis.

Aditi’s learning has been shaped by field and applied research experiences, including serving as a WHO External Monitor for Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI 5.0) and leading a mixed-methods dissertation at the Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute of Virology, examining vaccine hesitancy across multiple districts in Maharashtra. Professionally, she has experience in healthcare and pharmaceutical market research, global and local advocacy, and writing on health, gender, and social justice for UNICEF’s Voices of Youth platform. She is particularly interested in the intersection of AI, healthcare data, and public systems, and aspires to contribute to ethical, evidence-based decision-making in public health policy.