Governing Board Members

Suneel Vatsyayan has a Post Graduate Degree in Social Work with a specializa;on in Criminology and Correctional Administration from Jamia Millia Islamia. In 1987, he joined Navjyoyi Delhi Police Foundation for Correction, De-addiction and Rehabilitation as the Founding Director and led it for twelve years. He did ground- breaking work in the use of peer counselors with addicts and people living with HIV/AIDS and their families. Mr. Vatsyayan currently contributes voluntarily as the Founding Chairperson of Nada India. Nada advocates for balanced and healthy public policies to prevent, control non- communicable diseases, child friendly, gender sensitive and drug and tobacco free healthy and productive lifestyles. Vatsyayan joined as the member of the steering group of the Community of Practice (CoP) on ‘Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Commercial Determinants of Health (CDoH)’ under the World Health Organization Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (WHO GCM/ NCD) and The Graduate Institute, Geneva.

NADA International honored him for his vision and leadership in the year 2001 at Kentucky U.S. He was also awarded twice with Rotary Vocational Service Award by Rotary International, Delhi. He was recently conferred with the prestigious Karmaveer Chakra Award and REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship at the REX CONCLiVE instituted by United Nations and International Confederation of NGO (iCONGO) at the ReX Conclave, India.

He strongly believes that there could not be a better platform than NAPSWI, to continue working towards the greater goal of bringing in change in the country with the support from such passionate heart driven people. He knew and strongly believed that the social work practioners have a greater role to play in achieving the objectives of NAPSWI in the years to come. He would also like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the key collaborations of NAPSWI and Nada India Foundation in last couple of years. The collaboration led to the launch of “NAPSWI Young India Wellness Campaign” with a vision to have meaningful involvement of young social work students in the advocacy of good health agenda with a primary focus on tobacco and alcohol, as major risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases. The campaign has been spread out at the national level by Nada India leadership wherein NAPSWI board members successfully mobilized the social work students as health advocates in tobacco prevention and cessation. He assures all that he shall continue to dedicatedly work towards the wellbeing and enhancement of the social work profession.