Recent work
You can see examples of my recent work below.
USAID cuts: Some maternal & child health initiatives in Nepal end, others uncertain
The hiring of 36 nurses to promote breastfeeding and creation of seven simulation labs designed to improve workers’ maternal healthcare skills are two programmes that have been slashed after USAID stopped operating in February.
‘It benefits investors, not locals’: Indigenous leaders oppose Nepal cable car project
Three controversial development projects in Nepal face fierce resistance from Indigenous groups determined to defend their sacred sites and culture.
Mobile health camps can benefit rural Nepalis—in specific cases
Sitting on a stool, Dr. Suman Thapa peers through a microscope as he slowly cuts across the patient’s eye with a scalpel. Incision made, he carefully probes under the cornea, making a ‘tunnel’ for the lens.
Can Nepal again lead the world in fighting malnutrition?
Nepal is celebrated globally for its success in fighting malnutrition from the 1990s until recent years. Most notably, rates of stunting (low height for age) fell from the world’s highest, 68% in 1995, to 36% in 2016.
School feeding is now the world's largest social safety net
Worldwide 388 million students, or 1 in 2 schoolchildren, received at least one meal or snack per day at school before the COVID-19 pandemic in what the World Food Programme (WFP), quoting the World Bank, calls the world’s “most extensive social safety net.”
Sleeping outside after the Jajarkot earthquake killed a mother in Nepal — then it didn't
Like any mother, Sharmila Chadara just wanted to get home to see her child. It was this primal urge, and other unrelated factors, that directly resulted in her death on the night of 24 November.