Priyanka Kadam

Priyanka Kadam is the founder of Snakebite Healing & Education Society (SHE-INDIA.ORG), a national-level civil society organization dedicated to preventing and controlling snakebites in India. She is an expert in snakebite prevention and control strategies and has been a member of WHO's Global Snakebite Envenoming Working Group. She collaborated with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and WHO-India to draft the National Action Plan for Snakebite Envenoming (NAPSE), which was released on 12 March 2024.

She works with ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), NCDC (National Centre for Disease Control), the Non-Communicable Disease department (NCD), the National Health Mission (NHM), and WHO-India across the country. She produced the advocacy film The Dead Don’t Talk (https://youtu.be/q9wk-NkpKo8), which received an award at the International Science Film Festival of India in Kolkata.

She has built networks with multiple teams and created community awareness materials on snakebite prevention and first aid in 14 Indian languages. She also collaborated with Swiss TPH and colleagues from VAPAGuide.info to help develop the Snakebite Assistant App for India — a learning tool on snakebites for paramedics, doctors, nurses, researchers, and the general public alike.