Dr. Suryavanshi is Clinical Research Site Coordinator and Deputy Director for the BJGMC-CRS in Pune, India, and a Research Associate faculty member Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Center for Clinical Global Health Education. Dr. Suryavanshi is a behavioral scientists whose research involves women’s empowerment, mental health, reproductive health, and HIV and tuberculosis research in clinical settings as well in urban and rural community settings. 

Dr. Suryavanshi has established extensive networks with regional nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and local TB and HIV programs. She has developed and co-developed various Psycho-social projects addressing health topics including, mental health of health care providers during COVID pandemic, mental health of adolescents living with HIV and Tb, stigma and tuberculosis, disclosure of HIV among children, empowerment of MDR-TB adolescents and women in low resource settings, and gender-based violence. During the past 19 years, she has overseen the clinical research studies related to HIV/AIDS and TB in of BJGMC-JHU Clinical research site in Pune, India. 

Dr. Suryavanshi completed a CDC grant to enhance the capacity of outreach workers catering to HIV-infected pregnant women for the uptake of PMTCT services using mHealth platform. She is leading a Hybrid trail for Alcohol reduction intervention among HIV and HIV/TB patients at two sites in Pune, India. She has been selected as mentor of USAID PEER Mentorship program for women in TB research. She is also serving as a member of Technical Advisory Committee of TREAT ASIA Mental Health and HIV· Heading Behavioural and Social science Working Group, RePORT India consortium. Leading a training and mentoring committee for the JHUBI Clinical trials unit program. She has presented her work at national and international conferences, and has published study findings in peer reviewed journals. 

Dr. Suryavanshi attended the University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, India, where she earned her BSc in zoology, her MSc in medical anthropology, and her PhD in anthropology. Additionally, she is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, where she studied the ethical issues related to human subjects research in developing countries.

• Member, Site Operations Subcommittee
• Member, Cross-Network Site Coordinators Working Group
• Site Investigator, PHOENIx Study

• Nishi Suryavanshi, Ashwini Erande, Hemlata Pisal, Anita V. Shankar, Ramesh A Bhosale, Robert C. Bollinger, Mrudula Phadke, Jayagowri Sastry. Repeat pregnancy in HIV positive Indian women with known HIV status.  AIDS Care 2008, 1-8.
• Extended-dose nevirapine to 6 weeks of age for infants to prevent HIV transmission via breastfeeding in Ethiopia, India, and Uganda: an analysis of three randomised controlled trials. Six Week Extended-Dose Nevirapine (SWEN) Study Team, Bedri A, Gudetta B, Isehak A, Kumbi S, Lulseged S, Mengistu Y, Bhore AV, Bhosale R, Varadhrajan V, Gupte N, Sastry J, Suryavanshi N, Tripathy S, Mmiro F, Mubiru M, Onyango C, Taylor A, Musoke P, Nakabiito C, Abashawl A, Adamu R, Antelman G, Bollinger RC, Bright P, Chaudhary MA, Coberly J, Guay L, Fowler MG, Gupta A, Hassen E, Jackson JB, Moulton LH, Nayak U, Omer SB, Propper L, Ram M, Rexroad V, Ruff AJ, Shankar A, Zwerski S. Lancet. 2008 Jul 26;372(9635):300-13. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61114-9. HIV Medicine (2014)
• Jyoti S Mathad, Ramesh Bhosale, Vikrant Sangar, Vidya Mave, Nikhil Gupte, Savita Kanade, Ashwini Nangude, Kavita Chopade, Nishi Suryavanshi, Prasad Deshpande, Vandana Kulkarni, Marshall J Glesby, Daniel Fitzgerald, Renu Bharadwaj, Pradeep Sambarey, Amita Gupta Pregnancy differentially impacts performance of latent tuberculosis diagnostics in a high-burden setting.PLoS ONE  PLoS One 2014 21;9(3):e92308. Epub 2014 Mar 21.
• Debalina De, Aarti Kinikar, P. S. Adhav, Sunanda Kamble, Prasanna Sahoo, Hari Koli, Savita Kanade, Vidya Mave, Nishi Suryavanshi, Nikhil Gupte, Amita Gupta, and Jyoti Mathad, Source Case Investigation for Children with TB Disease in Pune, India. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 182836
• Nishi Suryavanshi,*, Gauri Raval, Savita Kanade, Smita Nimkara, Vaishali Nadgiri, Prassana Sahua, Deelip Kadam, Sandhya Khadse, Vidya Mave,, Nikhil Guptea,, Amita Gupta and Anita Shankar, Challenges to disclosure of HIV status to perinatally infected children: A study of caregiver perspectives in Pune, India. Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 9 (2014) 71–84   71 DOI 10.3233/JPI-140418.