Ranjit Khutan
Dr Ranjit Khutan is an independent Management, Research, and Education Consultant specialising in the Higher Education and Public Health sectors.
For the past 25 years, Ranjit has worked in a senior academic role overseeing public health teaching, research, and international partnerships. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Health Promotion Specialist (Sexual Health), Community Development Project Manager, and a lead in Patient & Public Involvement.
Ranjit supports universities with their delivery, academic quality, and strategic developments in public health, health and social care, and management and leadership programmes. He has particular expertise in transnational education and overseas partnerships, equality, diversity, and inclusion and supporting students into employment after completion of their studies.
Ranjit works with public health teams to support the workforce to develop their public health knowledge and skills. He also evaluates initiatives and engages with communities through innovative arts and health projects.
Ranjit’s areas of expertise include public health promotion, health care leadership, service design & change management, health needs assessment, health policy analysis, arts & health, and research methods (qualitative). These are closely aligned to his research interests which span the human life-course whilst focussing on specific populations, settings and activities; and aim to analyse, explain and reframe discourse and evidence in public health.
Ranjit is an Honorary Consultant in Public Health (non-medical academic) for Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, a lay Education Associate for the General Dental Council, and an external examiner for public health programmes.
Ranjit holds an MSc in Health Promotion, an MPH (Master of Public Health) and a PhD from the University of Manchester, where he examined the public health needs of prisoners and how approaches to improving health by reducing recidivism can be evaluated. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Ranjit is also an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and author, with works featured across stage, television, and film. He is an audience development ambassador for the Grand Theatre Wolverhampton and serves as a trustee of the Jaivant Patel Company, an international arts organisation that utilises various art forms to champion issues with South Asian communities, particularly focusing on issues relevant to the LGBT+ community. He has also assisted the Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford) as an Audience Development Ambassador and the Arts Council England as an Artistic Assessor.
For the UKPHR, he is Chair of the Education and Standards committee, and Vice-Chair of the Registration Panel.
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