Surabhi is a public health practitioner and development communications professional with experience working in global public health, national educational and local community settings.

She is passionate about harnessing communications to address public health challenges and emerging threats affecting young people. She has worked with adolescents, young people, women and children in rural and urban low-income communities in India.

Surabhi is a youth commissioner of the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. She is a member of the Youth Council of the World Health Organisation. She is also a part of the Council’s working group on climate change. She is an officer of the Emerging Professional Network, International Association of Adolescent Health.

She was selected to represent India as one of the four national delegates at the Mock Education Ministers Summit organised by Mock COP in the run-up to COP28. Surabhi has worked for organisations including Ashoka University, Public Health Foundation of India, SEWA Bharat, Tata Memorial Hospital, Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and others.

She holds a master’s degree in social work in public health from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and an undergraduate degree in mass communication from the University of Delhi. Her areas of interest include adolescent, environmental and digital health, ICT4D and youth engagement.