Falak Raza

Falak Raza (she/her) is a Senior Technical Specialist at ICRW Asia, specializing in Gender, Health, and Research Ethics. Her work encompasses designing and implementing mix-methods research, data analysis, training and capacity building, Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation (MLE) and project coordination. Her areas of work include Family Planning and Contraceptive Use, Health Policy, and Adolescents’ Agency and Empowerment, with a cross-cutting focus on gender, gender norms, and attitudes. Currently, she is leading and contributing to projects aimed at generating learnings for strengthening the implementation and roll-out of newer contraceptive methods- DMPA-SC and Hormonal Implants, in the public sector in Bihar, and providing technical support for testing and validating an Adolescent Girls’ Agency Scale across multiple states in India. In the past, Falak has contributed to research projects on Egocentric Social Network Analysis to understand role of key influencers of Young and Low Parity Women in FP, trajectories of DMPA-IM use among continued and discontinued users in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the role of Frontline Health Workers, factors shaping formulation of gender-responsive health policies, among others.

Falak also leads, coordinates, and implements ICRW Asia’s Ethics Review Policies and Processes for the protection of human subjects involved in research. In this role, she provides support across teams to ensure compliance with national ethical frameworks and guidelines, data protection laws, and institutional requirements for ethics reviews.