Mamta Gakhar, MPH works at YMCA of the USA as Project Manager for Program Delivery and Technical Assistance, where she manages a team of Technical Advisors supporting implementation of YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program via training, technical assistance, site audits, input on program integration, resource development, and other strategic counsel.

Prior to joining YMCA of the USA, Mamta worked as Program Manager for Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago (RHAMC). At RHAMC, Mamta helped to develop multiple clinic-based and community-based initiatives geared toward tobacco control and lung health disease management and targeted to local vulnerable populations. Working with advisory teams composed of respiratory health experts, Mamta managed various phases of program implementation, focusing initially on planning and design and later quality improvement and evaluation to better position the programming at RHAMC for replication and sustainability.

Before moving to Chicago, Mamta worked for three years in Washington DC at Partnership for Prevention, where she coordinated multiple projects designed to translate evidence-based recommendations issued by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services and the US Preventive Services Task Force into practical technical assistance manuscripts for public health practitioners, clinicians, and employers. These manuscripts were intended to inform the implementation of interventions for tobacco control and obesity prevention.

Mamta earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.