Prof. Monika Arora is a public health scientist working in the area of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control and adolescent health. She is the Vice President (Research and Health Promotion) at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). She is the President of the NCD Alliance (2023-25), was the founding Chairperson of the South East Asia NCD Alliance (2020-23), and a Founding GB member of the Healthy India Alliance. Her areas of research include: designing, implementing, and evaluating: Group Randomized Trials, Behavioural Research including mixed methods research, Policy Research, Implementation Research, Rapid Programme Review and Impact Evaluation of Policies and Programmes. She has served as a member of the Institutional Ethics Committee of PHFI from 2014 – 2021. She coordinates a multi-disciplinary research team at PHFI. She Chairs the Research Management Committee of PHFI and is also a Member Secretary of the External Research Advisory Council of PHFI.