Mitali Ayyangar

Biography

Mitali Ayyangar is DataKind's Community Health Work lead and brings her expertise in community engagement, program operations, M&E, and shared learning to DataKind's work. With more than a decade of experience in humanitarian and international development, she's cultivated deep experience in field-based and remote grassroots capacity building, particularly in the area of community health. Before joining DataKind, Mitali served as program manager for community based healthcare and surveillance with Médecins Sans Frontières. She's witnessed the power of data to be transformative and empowering of the most vulnerable in society. Through extensive M&E consulting work, she's also developed a profound appreciation for data-driven insights underpinning actionable, impactful decisions. At DataKind, Mitali works with talented data scientists from around the world to help them become agents of positive change and social impact, most recently managing a team of over 400 volunteers to assess AI projects for social impact from over 2000 organizations.