Dr Padma Bhate-Deosthali is Visiting Senior Fellow at IMPRI. Padma has been engaged in research, training, and policy advocacy in gender-based violence, gender in medical education, health policy research, regulation of the private health sector and women and work with a focus on health and human rights for two decades. Padma has a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and her doctoral thesis was on: “Understanding Gendered Patterns of Burn Injuries and response of hospitals in Mumbai”, 2017. She led CEHAT (Centre for enquiry into health and allied themes) as its Director for 11 years in producing a significant body of research and impacting policy and practice. She was a member of the Steering Group of the GDG(Guidance Development Group)-WHO for developing policy and clinical practice guidelines for responding to violence against women and also member of the National Committee under the MoHFW for drafting the “Guidelines and Protocols for medico-legal care for victims/survivors of sexual violence” in 2014. She made an oral and written submission to the Justice Verma Committee on medicolegal response to rape and psychosocial support for survivors/victims. She has led the setting up of health systems models for responding to Violence Against Women (VAW) including Dilaasa, a public hospital-based crisis centre on domestic violence in Mumbai which is now part of the National Health Mission. In her career spanning over 20 years, she has worked closely with the UNFPA, UNDP and WHO on various assignments in addition to her active role in India. She has published widely in international and national journals, She currently works at CREA (creating resources for empowerment and action), leading the SRH work and integrating gender in Urban sanitation in six states as part of the implementation of the Swacch Bharat Mission in six states.