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Ashata Dahal

Public Engagement Manager

Ashata is a public health enthusiast and a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. She has been doing public engagement at OUCRU Nepal since 2018.

Expertise: Ashata’s interest is to explore the health determinants by studying people’s experiences and perspectives. Her work centers around engaging communities and stakeholders to bridge the gap between research and communities and foster meaningful collaborations to improve public health outcomes. Her passion is translating research into practice, ensuring that health solutions are both effective and community driven.

Career and achievement: In 2013, Ashata graduated in public health with her enlistment in Dean’s List for her academic performance. She worked for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) project based in Kohalpur, Banke district. In 2015, she was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree scholarship in public health. She completed her master’s degree from the University of Sheffiled (UK) and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) with Merit.

Upon returning from Europe, she joined OUCRU Nepal as public engagement officer in 2018 for a large community based, randomized, controlled trial for a typhoid vaccine study. Since then, she has been leading and conducting public engagement events and has been a part of qualitative research ongoing at OUCRU Nepal.

Timeline

2024

Supervising the public engagement team as public engagement manager 

2023

Recipient of Oriel College Travel Grant award 

2022

First position in 3 Minute Thesis competition 

 

2022

DPhil candidate at Oxford University 

2021

Recipient of OUCRU Recognition Award. 

2020

Received and successfully conducted two public and community engagement seeds award projects from OUCRU. 

2020

First position in AMR story-telling competition organized by OUCRU Nepal. 

2019

Third position in Asia Pacific AMR photography competition organized by ReACT Asia 

2018

Joined OUCRU Nepal as public engagement officer

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Alun Davies; Phaik Yeong Cheah; Abhilasha Karkey; Samson Kinyanjui; Thanh Vu Duy; Supa-at Asarath; Aashata Dahal; Sabina Dongol; Alex Hinga; Nassim Jahangir; Emmanuel Mwakera; Giang Nguyen Le Thai; Yen Nguyen Hoang; Tassawan Poomchaichote; Ravikanya Praphasavat; Huyen Tran Thi Thanh; Summita Udas Shakya; Giao Vu Thi Quynh; Mary Chambers
Zenodo
November 16, 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5704104
Mila Shakya, Merryn Voysey, Katherine Theiss-Nyland, Rachel Colin-Jones, Dikshya Pant, Anup Adhikari, Susan Tonks, Yama F Mujadidi, Peter O’Reilly, Olga Mazur, Sarah Kelly, Xinxue Liu, Archana Maharjan, Ashata Dahal, Naheeda Haque, Anisha Pradhan, Suchita Shrestha, Manij Joshi, Nicola Smith, Jennifer Hill, Jenny Clarke, Lisa Stockdale, Elizabeth Jones, Timothy Lubinda, Binod Bajracharya, Sabina Dongol, Abhilasha Karkey, Stephen Baker, Gordan Dougan, Virginia E Pitzer, Kathleen M Neuzil, Shrijana Shrestha, Buddha Basnyat, Andrew J Pollard; TyVAC Nepal Team
Lancet Glob Health
November 1, 2021
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00346-6
Shakya M, Colin-Jones R, Theiss-Nyland K, Voysey M, Pant D, Smith N, Liu X, Tonks S, Mazur O, Farooq YG, Clarke J, Hill J, Adhikari A, Dongol S, Karkey A, Bajracharya B, Kelly S, Gurung M, Baker S, Neuzil KM, Shrestha S, Basnyat B, Pollard AJ; TyVAC Nepal Study Team
N Engl J Med
Desember 5, 2019
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1905047
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