Contextes de travail
Sénégal
Nigéria
Kenya
Tanzanie
Lesotho
Zambie
Ghana
Zimbabwe
Inde
Palash Singh
To effectively address today’s complex challenges, we must center the lived experiences of people, understand the systems in which they experience and navigate these challenges, and foster collaboration across disciplines and sectors.
Palash Singh is an innovation strategist with more than a decade of experience in leading interdisciplinary projects addressing global health and development challenges. His expertise lies in applying design-led innovation to drive research, strategy, and solution design while fostering collaboration and consensus among diverse stakeholders.
Palash started his career working on a multi-year income generation programme in Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Ethiopia, funded by India’s Ministry of External Affairs. This experience transformed his understanding of wicked problems like poverty and deepened his commitment to addressing complex challenges faced by vulnerable populations worldwide.
Palash is a strong believer in the synergistic power of interdisciplinary collaboration and his projects apply a diverse set of approaches to understand and solve problems. For example, one of his projects leveraged a behavioural segmentation among adolescent and young girls in Tanzania to develop targeted solutions for HIV testing and treatment adherence. In another project, he collaborated with Center for Applied Cognitive Science, University of Texas, Austin to study the motivation and performance of community health workers in India , and propose solutions to augment their efforts for improving maternal and child health outcomes.
He also led a futures scenarios process with youth in Kenya, and then worked with leading creatives in country to translate these scenarios into youth focussed family planning campaigns. In another project with Facebook, he drove an interdisciplinary team of experts to design content moderation guidelines to encourage prosocial behaviours.
At Sonder, Palash leads the Pathways family planning projects in Nigeria and Senegal, and works with the broader Pathways team to drive uptake of Pathways segmentation data among decision-makers.
Palash holds a master's degree in International Management and Design Innovation from the Adam Smith Business School and the Glasgow School of Art, and completed his undergraduate studies at the National Institute of Design, India. Originally from India, he is currently based in Helsinki, Finland.
