My name is Sahil Tandon. I’m from India. I speak Hindi and English. Talk to me about Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender Justice, Public Health. I spend my days supporting grantmaking, learning and strategy within the Reproductive Health program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in India. My work gives me great insights into the issues, discourses, actors, and opportunities around issues of SRHR, Adolescent and Youth Development, Feminist Movements, etc. I also active engage with other platforms, like the Strategic Advocacy Committee of the PMNCH (WHO), the Advisory Council for the Principles for Digital Development (DIAL), among others.

As a young person growing up in the 2000s, I have often relied on the internet to access information and seek guidance on many questions about myself, growing up, and staying healthy. In hindsight, I realize how ‘digital health’ has become such an essential and valuable element in my life, by being both a tool and a space to understand myself, find a community, and learn to stay well. This inspires me to work on these issues, and make digital health as accessible, safe and fulfilling as it can be, for all people.

You’d be surprised to know how not constantly listening to music can instantly incapacitate me