HER STORY
A medical graduate from Maulana Azad Medical College, India, she started her career working in the public health fields of reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health.
In parallel to her mainstream work, she also founded Indian Aces, a Facebook page in 2014, to form the Indian sub-continent’s first support group for asexual community: IndianAces. She has since been credited for getting the ‘A’ added in the Indian LGBTQIA+ scene.
It was with Indian Aces that she began her journey towards bridging the gap between science, sexuality, sexual health, and sexual rights.
Today, her work has grown far beyond into the social impact spheres of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, gender based violence, positive masculinity, sexuality, non-sexuality, Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) Act, diversity and inclusion, equality and equity, and more. She runs a number of campaigns and initiatives on various issue areas.
She enjoys both academic and non-academic work, ranging from her unique research studies on sexuality, to developing novel models on human sexuality, to organizing rigorous training and workshops, including a pan-Asia level PanACEa conference, and even holding her unique Platonicity.co meetups for non-sexual matches!
My Story
In parallel to my work, I founded Indian Aces, a Facebook page in 2014, to form the Indian sub-continent’s first initiative for asexual people (IndianAces.org).
There began my journey towards bridging the gap between science, sexuality, and sexual rights.
Today, my work has grown far beyond, to include work on gender, positive masculinity, sexuality, non-sexuality, Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) Act, diversity and inclusion, and equality, equity, and justice.
Within these fields, I enjoy both academic and non-academic work, ranging from my research studies on sexuality and presenting them at conferences, to developing novel models and theories based on the same, to organizing rigorous training and workshops, to holding some rather unique meetups!
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Awards & Honors
BBC 100 Women, 2019
Anjali Gopalan Award for Social Justice, 2019
Delhi Government ‘Young Achiever’, 2018
Best Oral Paper Presentation, WFMH, 2017
Women’s Web award for Digital Creativity, 2017
Laadli Award for Poetry, PF and UNFPA, 2016
Podcast
Research
Her research work on Sexuality and Asexuality has been invited to be presented and published at multiples international avenues, including:
- Asexuality Activism in India and Its Unique Position
In International Journal of Sexual Health (Vol. 34);
presented at World Association of Sexual Health Congress, 2022 - A Study of Trends Observed in Self-Identified ‘Asexual’ People
In Journal of Sexual Medicine by Elsevier (Vol. 14); presented at World Association of Sexual Health congress in Prague, Czech Republic, 2017 - World Congress on Mental Health in Delhi, where she won the award for Best Oral Paper received from Nobel Laureate Mr. Kailash Satyarthi.
- Queer Asia conference, University of London, UK (research poster presentation).
- Asia Oceania Federation for Sexology Congress, Chennai (oral paper presentation).
Workshops
Her ingenious workshops and training modules have been conducted at multiple international conferences and workshops globally, such as:
- University of London, UK, at their Queer Asia conference.
- ILGA World conference, New Zealand.
- World Congress on Mental Health in Delhi, to an audience comprised largely of psychologists and psychiatrists.
- As a part of the YCF program, Swedish Institute, in Sri Lanka.
- In collaboration with Sex Ed Lecture Series
- In collaboration with Intersex Asia fellowship program, ILGA Asia
- For clients such as Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, and more
- She has also conducted her workshops independently across multiple tier 1 and tier 2 cities in India since 2017.
Recognitions
A fellow with the CSEPI – Council of Sex Education and Parenthood International and an ambassador with the ASHA- American Sexual Health Association, her work has been recognized on various international fora, as detailed in the Awards section below.
Her contribution has been acknowledged in various other ways too: In 2022, she was selected as an Atlas Corps Fellow to serve in the USA, and in 2018, the Swedish Government awarded her the scholarship Young Leader Fellowship.
Her initiative: SAMHA has been awarded by UNDP’s Youth Co:Lab, and The Govt of India in 2021.
She was also recognized as a Youth Leader at the Mingle Summit held in Bangalore, India, and awarded a full scholarship to the National Sex Education conference in Atlanta, USA.
Skills
Education
BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, BACHELOR OF SURGERY (MBBS)
2006 – 2011
Diploma, Organizational Leadership- Fellowship
2018-2019
Certificate, Principles and practice of clinical research
2018
CERTIFICATE COURSE – HEALTH RESEARCH FUNDAMENTALS
2016 – 2016
CERTIFICATE COURSE – LEADERSHIP IN MENTAL HEALTH
2015 – 2015
ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT
2012 – 2012
Education is not preparation
for life, education is life itself.
Employment
Led a team of 20 nurses and field workers to ensure that the WHO iKMC study is conducted in accordance with study protocol, standard operating procedures, and good clinical practices.
Monitoring and evaluating the UP Technical Support Unit for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and others for Clinton Health Access Initiative and David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Represented WHO-SEARO as the rapporteur to prepare technical reports for two Technical meetings of IVD/FGL, WHO-SEARO held in New Delhi.
Under the guidance of WHO Representative to India, led a team of 9 in monitoring and evaluating government immunization activities for the entire district of Mathura, UP.
Media
Pragati Singh Is Trying To Transform India’s Gender & Sexuality Landscape Through Interactive Workshops – IndianWomenBlog
An Asexual Dating Platform Still Has Many Kinks to Sort Out – Vice
Indian Aces: Awareness and “Asexuality 101” in India – TheAsexual
Attempt to define asexuality in more than one way – The Hindu
Asexuality/Sexuality Counseling Camp Delhi – LGBT Events India
Meet India’s Newest Sexual Minority: The Asexuals – Hindustan Times
Putting Indian Asexuals On The Map – DNAIndia
Recent Blog
Contact
Always open to new projects, ideas, and collaborations.
Whatsapp:
+91-850 1984417
Email:
hello@drpragatisingh.com
Social Media
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Doctor & Impactpreneur @platonicity, @asexualityasia, @humansofqueer, & @indianaces_; Gender, SRHR, LGBTQIA+ Leader; @bbc100women