Rajeev Sadanandan

Rajeev Sadanandan is the CEO of Health System Transformation Platform, a think tank on Health Policy and Systems in New Delhi. As a senior IAS office, he worked as Health Secretary of Kerala and CEO of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), India’s national social health insurance programme, in addition to holding many other positions in state and central governments. Mr Sadanandan worked briefly with UNAIDS, and has been a member of technical committees set up by UNAIDS and WHO. He was recently Advisor to the Chief Minister of Kerala on the management of COVID-19, and one of the Commissioners of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing Primary Health Care. His research interests include the organization and financing of health care.