Ravi Verma is the regional director for the

International Center for Research on Women The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a non-profit organization with offices located in Washington, D.C., United States, New Delhi, Ranchi, and Jamtara, India, Nairobi, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. ICRW works to promote gende ...

's Asia Regional Office and leads the organization's local and regional efforts on various aspects related to research, providing expertise in building capacity and participating in policy dialogue on issues that include adolescent girls, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and gender-based violence.

Education

Ravi Verma completed his master's in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

from

Allahabad University The University of Allahabad is a Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 23 September 1887 by an act of Parliament and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance (INI). It is the 4th oldest mode ...

1977. In the year 1981, he received his

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from IIT Bombay. There after he pursued a PG Diploma in health promotion from

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

and leadership trainings on reproductive health and public health from

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury, central London, and a member institution of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine. The institu ...

and

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

respectively.

Career

Ravi Verma started his career with International Institute for Population Sciences where he was a Professor in the Department of Population Policies and Programs. He then joined as a program associate with

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where he worked on innovative operations research projects on gender and HIV. Ravi Verma joined ICRW in 2007.

Expertise and programs

Ravi Verma's areas of expertise include HIV and AIDS, Engaging Men and Boys, Population and Reproductive Health, Violence Against Women. Ravi Verma has led many research programs and initiative of importance that include Gender-based violence, engaging the community to promote gender equality among young men, gender equality movement in schools(GEMS). Some of the major programs conceived, implemented and executed by Ravi in collaboration with partner organizations are: * Research and Intervention for Sexual Health: Theory to Action (RISHTA) * GEMS * Parivartan - Coaching Boys into Men A brief video from the Parivartan programme: * Yari Dosti * Sakhi Saheli - Promoting gender equality and empowering young women * Let's raise our voice event, 2013: * Commission on the Status of Women (CSW): Invited to the CSW 2013 Program for Why do men use violence and how do we stop it: new evidence on men's use of violence against women and girls and its uses for enhanced prevention.

Awards and honors

* Ravi Verma was selected as a member of the High-Level Committee on the Status of Women effective May 21, 2013, by the Government of India. This committee has been set up to undertake a comprehensive study to understand the status of women since 1989. * Ravi Verma was elected as one of 18 members of the Rights and Empowerment Working Group for Family Planning 2020 * Ravi currently serves as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global health.

References

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