WHO India Staff

 

 

Ms Shamila Sharma

 

Public Information and Advocacy Officer

E-mail: sharmasha@searo.who.int

 

Shamila Sharma is working in WHO-India since June 2008.

 

Sharma shifted to the development sector in 2006 joining UNICEF as media consultant for the polio eradication programme in Uttar Pradesh. She moved on to WHO-National Polio Surveillance Project in 2007 to handle communication for polio programme at the national level.

 

She started her career with a news agency and moved up to senior editorial position during her 16-year stint before taking up an assignment in the Gulf as assistant editor of the region’s first English daily.

 

A graduate in History Honours from Delhi University with a Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Delhi, she has about 19 years experience, mostly as a media person. 

 

 

 

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