Rahul Patiri is a Senior Director in the India team and leads the area of work around nutrition, which is centered around improving the uptake of good practices, anemia reduction, and toward introduction of interventions and innovations to improve related nutrition outcomes. With over 13 years of experience in advocacy and communications, he has worked across health areas, including child health and immunization, cervical cancer prevention, and polio elimination. He has been part of several unique initiatives, that constituted efforts aimed at mainstreaming health in the narrative. Rahul also oversees strategic communications and media engagement efforts across projects in India, specially supporting with strategy design, storyline development, and stakeholder coordination.

With a background in commerce, Rahul has previously worked on strategic brand building, media relations, and related internal and other external communications efforts.