Dr. Prearna Khadka

Dr. Prearna Khadka is a medical doctor and completed her MBBS from Kathmandu University with Master of Public Health (MPH) from Mahidol University, Bangkok. She has holds about eight years of working experience in various areas of public health and prior working as a medical officer in Tribhuwan University teaching Hospital. She has been involved with New ERA since 2015 and has been working in the capacity of Research Officer/Team Leader for several projects. She contributed as technical coordinator/Health Expert for Nepal Health Facility survey 2015 and 2020. She has sound understanding of tools and instrument design, facilitating training to enumerators and master trainers, managing and monitoring field team during data collection, assisting data collection team in editing and checking data inconsistency. She has both quantitative and qualitative research skills and analysis. Dr Khadka recently led the Post campaign coverage survey of Measles Rubella Supplementary Immunization Activity (MR SIA 2020) in Nepal conducted by New ERA for WHO.