Karthikeyan is a design thinking facilitator with 10+ years of experience in delivering solutions across agriculture, healthcare, consumer tech and social development and design, such as design and systems thinking, service design, process mapping, product development & delivery, design strategy consulting, visual communication, and user experience design.
His interests lie in design-led social innovation with a focus on healthcare and healthy ageing. He enjoys learning and navigating through complex and ambiguous information and creating frameworks and visualisations to bring coherence & to facilitate solutioning with relevant stakeholders.
At IHCRF, he leads the Human Centered Design (HCD) inititatives which entails developing curriculum and facilitating a HCD-led capacity building for a public health focussed pan-India fellowship, to empower fellows to create innovative, user-centered solutions that address critical public health challenges across India. Karthikeyan’s work ensures that the fellowship promotes practical applications of HCD for sustainable health outcomes.
Karthikeyan Gopinathan
Leadership Team

Dr. Belinda Bennet
Managing Trustee
Vikas Gambhir
Trustee
Dr Roma Solomon
Trustee
Anand Kumar Bolimera
Trustee
Project Leadership Team

Johnson Topno
Executive Director
Avinav Kumar
Programme Advisor
Swati Kundra
Finance Advisor
Poonam Rathi
Head of Finance
Arti Verma
Programme Lead
Dheeraj Daniel Horo
State Lead, Jharkhand
Archana Rohini Toppo
Associate State Lead, Jharkhand
Santosh Kumar Singh
Capacity Development Specialist
Tundup Wangail
Project Lead Leh, Ladakh
Ashish Yadav
Project Implementation Lead
Richa Chaudhary
Programme Technical Advisor – Public Policy and Partnerships
Minakshi Tripathi
Development Economist
Sunpreet Singh
Communications Officer
Shagufta Perween
Communications Officer
Anirudh Singh
State Lead, Madhya Pradesh
Saurabh Tiwari
Project Lead, Pathankot
Gorango Mahto
Finance & Grant Manager
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