Vik Mohan
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Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme; Medical Adviser & Trustee Exeter, UK Dr Vik Mohan is a GP in Exeter. |
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Dr Vik Mohan is a practicing general practitioner with a passion for marine conservation, and project director for Blue Ventures’ integrated Population, Health and Environment (PHE) project.
Having developed expertise in expedition and dive medicine, he started work as medical advisor to Blue Ventures in 2005. Whilst working with coastal communities in southwest Madagascar, his medical perspective and interest in sexual and reproductive health led him to uncover a huge unmet need for health care, and sexual and reproductive health care in particular. Having established that these communities were happy for Blue Ventures to provide this care, he opened the region’s first family planning clinic in 2007. After the overwhelmingly positive response to these first clinics, he has developed the service into what is now a comprehensive multisite sexual and reproductive health and education programme.
Through his understanding of the linkages between reproductive health, population growth, conservation and food security, he has enabled the integration of this work into the portfolio of Blue Ventures’ projects, to form a truly integrated PHE project.
He also works as Associate GP Dean for the Peninsula Deanery, and has drawn upon his skills as an educationalist to develop the educational component of the work and develop a medical student elective programme.
“I am totally convinced that Blue Ventures is developing the world's most effective and comprehensive model for integrating tropical marine conservation and sustainable coastal development.”
Key acheivements at Blue Ventures: Vik has recently helped to secure support and funding for the PHE project from the MacArthur Foundation and the UNFPA. Vik also presented the PHE project at International Policy Symposium on population dynamics and climate change in 2010 and RCUK conference in 2008.
