Primary Job Title Head of Innovation and Implementation Primary Organization 
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Vaidyanathan has over 30 years of experience in the field of corporate social responsibility and social development. He has worked with a wide range of organizations such as Sight Savers, Save the Children DANIDA and USAID designing and executing bespoke CSR projects. His interests primarily revolved around sectors such as health, nutrition,
drinking water, sanitation hospital management, disaster management and disability.
Over the years, he worked closely with the government of India at the state as well as the national level and played a significant role in setting up district level societies across over 100 districts as a part of India’s decentralized planning.
In addition, he also set up new ventures, pilot programs and developed standard operating procedures for several corporate organizations and foundations like LANCO, Philips India, Hinduja National Hospitals and Aravind Eye hospitals.
He has worked in several countries in SAARC region and managed numerous programs in Asia and South Asia. His work has been published extensively in social work and social policy journals.
He has served on the editorial board of the Community Eye Health – an international journal jointly by the International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. He was the resource person and advisor to several public health, logical framework approach and development modular trainings for national and international programmes.
He holds a post graduate degree in Economics and a Masters degree of Philosophy in Population Science.
