Professional Advisors to FMCH UK

 

Our Advisors

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Dr Rupal Dalal MD

Dr Rupal qualified as a doctor in Mumbai and as a paediatrician in Chicago. After several years of paediatric experience in California, she returned to Mumbai determined to tackle malnutrition, where she encountered FMCH India and volunteered as Director of Health.

Rupal served as Founding Medical Director for FMCH India, establishing preventive and therapeutic clinics for malnourished children from 2007 and leading multidisciplinary teams across urban Mumbai and rural Maharashtra. Her research using FMCH's own longitudinal data — covering over 4,600 children between 2014 and 2019 — demonstrated a 48% reduction in wasting within the first six months of intervention, and highlighted early registration and effective breastfeeding as the most significant factors in improving child nutritional status. She now serves as Consulting Pediatrician to the Government of Maharashtra, Department of Health.

Selected publications

Yaddanapudi L, Dalal R, Agnihotri S (2020). Positive deviance in child malnutrition of urban poor of Mumbai, India: A longitudinal analysis. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Suppl 5). https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/doi/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.987/5916304

Athavale P, Hoeft KS, Dalal R et al. (2020). A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators to implementing recommended infant nutrition practices in Mumbai, India. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 39:15. https://jhpn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41043-020-00215-w

Dalwai S, Choudhury P, Bavdekar S, Dalal R et al. (2013). Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics on Integrated Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition. Indian Pediatr, 50(4):399–404.

 

Dr Lisa Teoh MBChB, MRCPCh

Lisa is a Consultant in acute and community paediatrics at Torbay Hospital, UK, with a special interest in sleep, respiratory health and neurodisability. She brings her clinical expertise to the FMCH Board of Advisors, with a particular interest in the challenges facing paediatric teams in low-resource settings.

 

Dr Clare Taylor BA, MBChB, FRCS, FRCEM

Clare studied medicine at Bristol University and undertook specialty training in Emergency Medicine in England and Australia, becoming a Consultant at the Royal United Hospital, Bath in 2002. She has a special interest in training and education, serving as Medical Dean for Bath Academy, an honorary reader at the University of Bristol Medical School, and an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. She is also a course director on Advanced Trauma Life Support and Advanced Life Support courses.