Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives (SATHI) is the Global COPASAH Secretariat. SATHI Director Dr. Dhananjay Kakade, also serves as the Global COPASAH Secretariat Coordinator.

SATHI partners with civil society organisations to work on health rights issues, and facilitates advocacy at the local, district, state and national levels. SATHI’s rights-based approach promotes the perspective that it is essential to make public health systems accountable and responsive to public needs, through organised and sustained public action, instead of looking for substitutes, or replacements for them.

SATHI works on health rights issues, through partnerships with civil society organisations

SATHI partners with civil society organisations to work on health rights issues, and facilitates advocacy at the local, district, state and national levels. SATHI’s rights-based approach promotes the perspective that it is essential to make public health systems accountable and responsive to public needs, through organised and sustained public action, instead of looking for substitutes, or replacements for them

Dr. Dhananjay Kakade is the Director of SATHI with over 18 years of professional experience at the global and the national level in the development sector. He has worked as a trainer, researcher, campaigner, organiser, manager and grant-maker, focusing on social accountability, governance, and human rights. Dr. Dhananjay has worked with civil society organisations and funding agencies to safeguard human rights and promote people’s participation in health decision-making. From 2004 to 2012, he worked with SATHI- CEHAT- Pune as a Senior Program Officer and Associate Coordinator and worked with Oxfam India as a Health Coordinator from 2013 to 2014. He has worked in the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations, New York, from 2015 to 2018. Before joining Open Society Foundations, he served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Advocacy Studies in India from 2014 to 2015.

Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives is located at Plot No.140, Flat No. 3 & 4, Aman E Terrace, Dahanukar Colony, Kothrud, Pune, 411038, Maharashtra, India.

More details via https://sathicehat.org/