Anubha Taneja-Mukherjee
Member Secretary
“Anubha Taneja-Mukherjee is a lawyer by training and has seventeen years of experience in the area of advocacy. A thalassemic herself, Mukherjee has been working for the cause of thalassemia since her early years in Thalassemics India. As early as 2006, while still a student of law at Campus Law Centre (Delhi University), Mukherjee represented the thalassemia patients of SSK Hospital (Delhi) before the relevant authorities in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, for establishing the Day Care Centre for Thalassemia at the said hospital.
Mukherjee is also responsible for setting up the Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAT) lab in Indian Red Cross Society HQ at Delhi in a PPP mode. The lab was inaugurated by former Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan. She is a credible voice on blood safety and has been extensively covered by media for her endeavors in the field of thalassemia. She represents TPAG as a special invitee to the National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC) under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW). Mukherjee is also a member of Thalassemia Patients Advocacy Group of Thalassemia International Federation (TIF), which is headquartered at Cyprus. Apart from TIF, Mukherjee has engaged with members of Cooley’s Anaemia Foundation of the Unites States of America and the Federation of Malaysia Thalassemia Societies. Her speaking engagements have been in countries like the U.S, Greece, Germany, Turkey and Malaysia.
Mukherjee was invited by Thalassemics India (a not for profit organization in existence for 35 years) to set up and lead Thalassemia Patients Advocacy Group in 2017. TPAG was set up by like minded adult thalassemics like Mukherjee and works to protect the overall interests of thalassemics and prevent thalassemia.
On the professional front, Mukherjee has worked with top-of-the-line industry players in legal and policy roles. She is currently serving a Multinational corporate as its Head of Public Affairs in India.
Mukherjee’s experience of trial and policy advocacy across sectors enables her to apply the knowledge of law, which she describes as a ‘way to think as opposed to a subject’, to complicated situations at hand.”
