Vik Mohan

Biography

Dr Vik Mohan is the Medical Director of Blue Ventures Conservation and a practicing doctor. He is passionate about marine conservation, environmental sustainability and global social justice.


Whilst working with communities in Madagascar on Blue Ventures’ community based marine conservation programme, his interest in community health led him to uncover a huge unmet need for health care, and sexual and reproductive health care in particular. Responding to this need, he led the development and implementation of the region’s first sexual and reproductive health service, and oversaw its integration into the portfolio of Blue Ventures’ projects, to form an award winning People, Health and Environment (PHE) programme.


After over ten years of supporting the implementation and growth of this programme, he has witnessed first-hand the multiple benefits of working in this integrated and holistic way, from improved natural resource management and community resilience, through to improvements in maternal and child health. His work with Blue Ventures now focusses on supporting others to adopt this approach. As well as supporting scale up in Madagascar, Vik is working to enable replication in Mozambique, Kenya, the Comoros, India, Indonesia and East Timor.


Recognising how challenging the work of doctors and social entrepreneurs can be, Vik is increasingly interested in the resilience and wellbeing of his fellow practitioners. He is currently collaborating on a pilot programme to foster greater resilience among doctors in training, with a view to supporting its replication for doctors and social entrepreneurs alike.


When he’s not working to support the wellbeing of doctors, coastal communities or marine ecosystems Vik can be found DJing for his community radio station, mountain biking or looking after his beautiful baby daughter.