Uttara Bharath Kumar has over 27 years of experience in the field of health communication and behavior change. Currently the Senior Social and Behavior Change (SBC) and Capacity Strengthening Advisor on the USAID Global SBC flagship program, Breakthrough ACTION, she has been with the Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communication Programs (CCP) since 1997, based in Baltimore, Zambia (11 years) and India. She is currently based in Chennai, providing regional technical expertise and support to programmes in Asia and Africa. She is an experienced trainer and has led as well as co-facilitated a number of Leadership in Strategic Communication (LSC) workshops globally on behalf of Johns Hopkins University’s Training and Capacity Strengthening Division. She has numerous conference presentations and publications to her credit, and has supported programmes in over 20 countries.

She co-founded Nalamdana (Are You Well?), a Chennai-based health communication NGO, in 1993 with a seed grant from the Echoing Green Foundation and was its executive director until 1996. She continues to actively serve on Nalamdana"s Board of Trustees in an honorary capacity and provides technical guidance and fundraising support to Nalamdana’s projects. Ms. Bharath Kumar has a Masters degree in Public Health from the John"s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, USA) and a BA from Wellesley College. (Massachusetts, USA). She is fluent in English, Tamil and Hindi.

India CSR Summit & Exhibition is South Asia’s largest CSR, SDGs and social impact forum. The Summit brings together business leaders, board directors, CSR foundations, impact investors, philanthropists, innovators, government agencies, the UN bodies and non-profits leaders to explore synergies and co-create solutions.

Built on the context of mandatory CSR provisions in India, the Summit, in the last 6 years, has truly become the convergence of social impact leaders from across the country. The event has already witnessed participation of over 490 exhibitors, almost 6700 organizations and 11500 professionals. The recent summit on September in 2019 was a benchmark event in terms of the scale, participation and knowledge sharing with 500+corporate heads, 100+ exhibitors and 2000+ delegates from 1900+ organizations coming in one platform to attend 30+ panel sessions on various thematic areas, 10+ masterclasses specially curated for corporate and non-profits, along with keynote talks, product demos and networking sessions.