Full Name
Vik Mohan
Job Title
Director of Community Health
Company
Blue Ventures
Speaker Bio
Dr. Vik Mohan is a practising doctor, Director of Community Health at Blue Ventures Conservation, and architect of Blue Ventures’ award winning integrated health and conservation programme. Whilst working with communities in Madagascar on Blue Ventures’ community based marine conservation programme, his interest in community health led him to uncover a huge unmet need for health care, and sexual and reproductive health care in particular. Responding to this need, he led the development of the region’s first sexual and reproductive health service and oversaw its integration into the portfolio of Blue Ventures’ activities, to form an integrated Population, Health and Environment programme. After over ten years of supporting the implementation and growth of this programme, he has witnessed first-hand the multiple benefits of working in this integrated and holistic way, from improved natural resource management and community resilience, through to improvements in maternal and child health. This has inspired him to try and ensure that as many people as possible benefit from this planetary health approach to conservation and sustainable development. His work with Blue Ventures now focusses on supporting others to adopt this approach, in Madagascar and beyond.
Vik Mohan