Staff of Department of Health

SECRETARY

Dawa Tsultrim

Mr. Dawa Tsultrim was born in Miao (Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh) and he completed his schooling +2 from CST Darjeeling in the year 1994. After this, he pursued a Bachelor of Arts from Punjab University, Chandigarh. With a strong sense of giving back to the community he then devoted a year to focus on Tibetan Language study at College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah organized by Public Service Commission (CTA). In February 2000 he embarked on his vision of serving the Tibetan community by joining CTA initially under the Office Manager post. His first posting was at Norgyeling Tibetan Settlement Office, Bhandara. In the year 2002, he cleared Public Service Exam for the post of Under Secretary and got transferred to Phendeling Tibetan Settlement, Mainpat as Co-operative Secretary and served till December 2005. In between (March - Nov 2004) got an opportunity to complete 9 months Higher Diploma in Cooperative Management (HDCM) course from Regional Institute of Co-operative Management, Bengaluru organized by Home Department. In the year 2006 he was promoted to Deputy Secretary post while serving in the Department of Home. In the year June 2012 he was promoted to Joint Secretary post and transferred to Choephelling Tibetan Settlement as Settlement Officer. Later on he cleared the Office of Tibet's staff selection exam and transferred to the Tibet Bureau, Geneva in 2014 September. There he served for four years and was promoted to Additional Secretary in the year 2018 under the Department of Religion and Culture. From Oct 2019, he was transferred to Department of Home and served till Nov 17, 2022. From Nov 18, 2022 he was appointed as a Secretary of the Department of Health and currently holds the same position.
ADDITIONAL SECRETARY

Dekyi Dolkar

Dekyi Dolker la attended TCV School Lower and TCV School Upper in Dharamshala for her education. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at St. Xavier College in Gujurat after finishing class XII. She initially started working in Central Tibetan Administration since 1998. She has worked in various Departments including Home, Education, Archive and Documentation Section. And has performed various roles as administrative and sponsorship and school admission officer. She joined as the Department of Health’s Joint Secretary on September 19, 2022 and currently serving as the head of administrative section including TMS and Account section.
JOINT SECRETARY

Tsering Youdon

Tsering Youdon la is from Phuntsokling Tibetan Settlement, Odisha. She did her schooling from CST Chandragiri till the tenth standard and then joined CST Darjeeling where she completed her Pre-University. She graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts from Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore. After graduation, she joined the Central Tibetan Administration as an undersecretary in February 2006. She was placed in the Department of Information and International Relations of CTA. After working for six years in DIIR, she was promoted to Deputy Secretary in July 2012 and at the same time was transferred to the Documents Classification Section under Kashag Secretariat. After completing another six years in the documents section, in May 2019, she was promoted to the Joint Secretary of the health department. Her current responsibility is to oversee the Projects section, Public Health, and Disease Prevention section.

Tashi Yangzom was born and brought up in Tibetan Community in Shimla. She did her Schooling from CST Shimla, H.P and completed her BA Degree from RKMV College, Shimla. She has been working with the Department since 2003 after the privatization of Charitable Trust Handicraft. Since 2015, she has been taking the responsibility of personal assistant to the Kalon, Health Minister and the Secretary of the Department.
Tashi Yangzom

PA

Sonam Chodon did her primary schooling at CST Kollegal and senior secondary at CST Shimla. After graduating from Mysore University, she did a year diploma course in Computer at Learn soft Computer at Bangalore and year more in Teacher Training Course in Mysore. Prior to joining the Health Department, she had worked at Hotel Tibet, Dharamsala and Charitable Tibetan Handicraft Export in Delhi. After the privatization of the business unit, she then worked with the Finance department since 2003. Currently she is the coordinator of Emergency Relief Fund, Health department.
Sonam Choedon

Registrar Officer

Karma Tendar did his earlier schooling at TCV School, Ladakh where he studied until eighth grade. He worked at Tibetan Cooperative Society, Ladakh for two years. He has been working at the department of health, CTA since 1995.
Karma Tendhar

Driver

Mr. Tenzin Khedup is from Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement and has joined the DIIR, CTA in 2005 December. Since then he has worked there for nine years as a peon and was transferred to Auditor General Office and served there for five years. After that, he was transferred to the health department in 2019 and has been continuing his service since then.
Tenzin Khedup

Peon

Sudharshan did his earlier schooling from Government Middle School, Jadrangal at Chamunda and Government high school,Tangnarwna at Yol, Dharamsala. He has worked with the Tibetan Administration Welfare Society and Paljor Handicraft Center, Khanyara for twelve years. In November 2002, he joined this department as a gardener and now works as a peon from October 2014.
Sudharshan

Peon

Tenzin Choephel was born and brought up in Dharamsala. He did his high school from Upper Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala. He joined Central Tibetan Administration in year 2007 and works as a plumber in this Department.
Choephal

Water Maintenance

Tsering Youdon la is from Phuntsokling Tibetan Settlement, Odisha. She did her schooling from CST Chandragiri till the tenth standard and then joined CST Darjeeling where she completed her Pre-University. She graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts from Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore. After graduation, she joined the Central Tibetan Administration as an undersecretary in February 2006. She was placed in the Department of Information and International Relations of CTA. After working for six years in DIIR, she was promoted to Deputy Secretary in July 2012 and at the same time was transferred to the Documents Classification Section under Kashag Secretariat. After completing another six years in the documents section, in May 2019, she was promoted to the Joint Secretary of the health department. Her current responsibility is to oversee the Projects section, Public Health, and Disease Prevention section.
Tsering Youdon

Joint Secretary and South & Central Zone Head

Tsering la has a Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science, a Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital and Healthcare Management from Symbiosis Centre of Health Care, and an MBA in Healthcare Management from Sikkim Manipal University. He has over four years of experience working as a hospital administrator and health coordinator under the CTA Department of Health. From 2016 to 2017, he worked at The Tibet Fund based in Dharamshala as Health Project Coordinator for USAID supported Tibetan Health System Capacity Strengthening (THSC) project. Presently, he is serving at the Department of Health CTA as OSM & PRM project Coordinator.
Tsering

Project Coordinator Head

Pema Tsering joined the Department of Health, CTA in July 2021 for Tibetan Telemedicine Services(TTS) project. It is a new project undertaken by the department and implemented in three pilot sites namely PHC Miao, NHC Bhandara, and PHC Tezu. Her responsibilities are coordinating with the telemedicine partner and to oversee the project for the successful functioning of the services as planned at the three centers/settlements. With her interest in genes, hereditary diseases and traits, and how it affects our body. She pursued her master's degree in molecular biology and human genetics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. She has a bachelor's degree in life science from Himachal Pradesh University. She has completed her schooling at Sambhota Tibetan School, Bhuntar (HP), and Central School for Tibetan, Mussoorie.
Pema Tsering

Tibetan Telemedicine Service (TTS) and Health Information System (HIS) Coordinator

Ms kunchok Dolma is appointed as a contractual WASH Project coordinator in 2019. She graduated from University of Delhi, Miranda House College with Bachelor of English Hons and completed her Master in Leadership and Governance from MIT World Peace University, Pune.
Kunchok Dolma

Bylakuppee Coordinator

Kelsang Chodon was born and brought up in Ladakh. She did her basic schooling from TCV Ladakh and completed high school from TCV Bylakuppe. She received her Bachelor's Degree in life science and Master's in Chemistry from Punjab University, Chandigarh. In 2019, she served in Central Tibetan Administration through a volunteer program (Tibet Corps) for seven months. Then later, she joined the CTA in January 2020 and handled the Universal Precaution Desk of the Public Health section for a year. Since then, she took charge of the Mother and Child Health Desk.
Kelsang Chodon

Mundgod and Kollegal Coordinator

Ms Tenzin Tashi serves as the Department's media representative. She is in charge of covering the occasions that Health Kalon and the secretary attend, includes updates on the department's official websites and social media accounts about the activities carried out by the programme officers of each programme. After being promoted to the position of office superintendent, she started working for the Health Department in November 2022.She is from Dharamshala and attended TCV Patlikuhl and Chauntra for her elementary education. She earned her graduate degree in English from Maharajasayajirao University in Vadodara. She cleared the public service exam in October 2015 and since then she has been serving under CTA
Tenzin Tashi

Media and Hunsur Coordinator

Tenzin Chondhen currently works as the dealing staff of the mental health desk. She was born in Delhi. She did her primary and secondary education from Tibetan Homes School, Mussoorie. She received her bachelor's degree in BSc. Psychology (Hons.) from Banaras Hindu University and P.G Diploma in Guidance and Counseling from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Before joining our Department of Health in March, 2022, she was a trainee of 5th Pre-service Training in Sarah, Dharamsala.
Tenzin Chondhen

Bandhara, Mainpat, Odisha Coordinator

Tenzin Kyizom currently serves as a program coordinator for Hepatitis Control Program. She had come from Tibet at a young age and completed her schooling at Tibetan Homes School, Mussoorie. She pursued her nursing education at St. John's College of Nursing, Bangalore. After graduation, she worked at the same hospital for one and a half years. Post that, she then worked at TPHC Dekyiling for one and a half years. She joined the department of health on 1st August 2022 to work on the Hepatitis Control Program.
Tenzin Kyizom

Bandhara, Mainpat, Odisha Coordinator

Pema Youdon was born in the Norgyeling Tibetan Settlement and did her schooling from C.S.T. Gothangaon, C.S.T. Dalhousie and C.S.T. Mussourie respectively. After completing the programme, she joined SFF and spent three years studying computer DOEACC "A" Level and Cisco networking at TCV Selakui Institute. She pursued aa B.A. at M.K.P(PG) College in Dehradun concurrently. She spent about 14 months teaching computers at Jaunsar Public School once it was finished. She started working in CTA in 2013 under the post of Under Secretary and was later transferred to the Office of Reception Centre (Nelenkhang) as a Deputy Director. Simultaneously earned an M.A. in English from IGNOU. Between 2015 and 2019, she worked as a Settlement Officer in Shillong. Afterwards, she served as the General Manager at Tibetan Women's Centre in Rajpur. She then worked as a settlement officer at Bir Chauntra and after promotion to Deputy Secretary she later joined the Department of Health. Currently, she is the head of the North zone in the Department of Health.
Pema Youdon

North Zone Head

Ms. Tenzin Dhaze was born and raised in India. She completed her schooling from Upper TCV and TCV Gopalpur in 2009. She pursued her nursing education from Manipal School of Nursing, Bangalore and graduated in 2013. She has 2 years of clinical experience as RN at Manipal Hospital Bangalore and SMI, Dehradun. She has served as public health assistant for a period of six months, through Tibet corps at the department during which her principal task was customization of “Prevention Begins With Me” an interactive animated film on HIV/AIDS in collaboration with TeachAids. Her gratitude towards the elder generations and our resilient community has aspired her to join CTA. Since, 18 th September 2017, she has been working in the public health section of the Department of Health, CTA managing Comprehensive Community Outreach and Coordinated Care (CCOCC) program across Tibetan settlements in India and Nepal.
Tenzin Dhaze

Delhi, Kullu, Dalhousie, Dolanji and Shimla Coordinator

Tenzin Wangdak completed high school from Tibetan Children's Village, Gopalpur. He has a Bachelor and a Master's Degree in Social Work from St. Joseph College Bangalore. He joined Central Tibetan Administration and was posted at Phuntsokling Tibetan Refugee Settlement Office as Office Assistant. In January 2019, he was transferred to the Health Department.
Tenzin Wangdak

Sataun, Puruwala, Poanta and Herbertpur and Audit Coordinator

Born and brought up in Dharamsala, Tenzin Tseyang completed her schooling from Upper TCV and received her post-grad education in English literature from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Gujarat. Afterwards, she joined CTA in 2017, where she began her work in communication section of Kashag and then got transferred to Department of Health. Currently, she is working as project officer, overlooking the project sections under USAID program in the Department of Health. She looks through a positive perspective as an opportunity to learn and inculcate new skills, and aspires to grow as an efficient contributing member of society through this platform.
Tenzin Tseyang

Ladakh, Bir, Chauntra, Tashijong and Sri Nagar Coordinator

Tenzin Lamsang, currently serves as RMNCH-A associate program coordinator. He has been transferred to health department from Kashag Secretariat, Documentation and Interim Placement Section. Served as a COVID-19 frontliner at the Dharamsala Settlement Office for three months during COVID-19 at its peak. Prior to that, He served for around seven years in Education Department at the Education Council and Sponsership Desk. He joined CTA in 2009 and his first posting was Accountant cum office Assistant at STS Puruwala till 2012. He was born in Ladakh, did his schooling from Upper TCV and graduated in Bachelor of Arts from St. Alloysius Mangalore.
Tenzin Lamsang

Coordinator

Karma Sonam joined the department as an Office Assistant in July 2021 and currently works at the TMS section. His responsibilities are reimbursing the medical claims from the general public, TVHA, CTA staff, and the claims from the destitute people. He has also attended Pre-Service Training in Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies like many other CTA staff. He has done his basic schooling at Tibetan Homes School. Completed his undergrad in BA and Masters in Economics from Punjab University. During his college years, he has taken an active role in RTYC Chandigarh where he was selected for President two times. Prior joining CTA, he worked as accountant cum secretary at Tibetan Refugee Self-Help Handicraft Shimla for two years.
Karma Sonam

Dharamshala, Mandi Coordinator

Norbu Wangdu was born in Sonamling Tibetan Settlement, Ladakh and he did his schooling at TCV School Lower Dharamshala and TCV Bylakuppe. After his class XII he attended two year Diploma course in Information Technology from Aptech Chandigarh. From 2007 to 2009 he worked as a design coordinator at Norbulingka Institute, then worked in the Department of Health, CTA for a year. His first transfer was to the Tenzingang Tibetan settlement office in the year 2011 followed by Ravangla, Miao and the Department of Information and International from 2014 to 2022. He is currently working in the Department of Health under the administration section
Norbu Wangdu

Dehradun and Ngoenga Coordinator

Tsering Yangchen works as a CCOCC (Comprehensive Community Outreach and Coordinated Care) nurse of the department under the CCOCC program. She is from Ladakh Sonamling Tibetan Settlement and has completed her Primary and secondary schooling from TCV Ladakh and Shimla CST School respectively. She was trained as a nurse at NITTE, Nitte Usha Institute of nursing science, based in Mangalore where she received the GNM Diploma degree. After receiving the degree, she worked at the Appolo hospital for one year. She then has worked for Jangthang region mobile clinic which is under the TPH of Ladakh Tibetan settlement for two and half years. She has joined the department on 1st September 2020.
Tsering Yangchen

Dharamshala Outreach Nurse

Jigmey Choekyi works as a CCOCC (Comprehensive Community Outreach and Coordinated Care) nurse of the department under the CCOCC program. She is from Tuting Tibetan Settlement and has completed her schooling at TCV Bylakuppe School. She was trained as a nurse at Holdsworth Memorial Mission Hospital, Mysore, where she received the GNM Diploma degree. After receiving the degree, she worked at the same hospital for three and half years. She then has worked for Tibet Charity, an NGO based in Dharamsala as a home nurse for almost ten years. Post working in Tibet Charity, she has joined the department in February 2020.
Jigmey Choekyi

Dharamshala Outreach Nurse

Ngawng Tenzin currently holds the position of head of the division, responsible for planning and executing health programs in Tibetan settlements located in North East India and Nepal. After graduating from Manipal University with a BSN Nursing degree, she joined the CTA's health department in 2013 as an RMNCHA program coordinator. In 2019, she was promoted to deputy secretary and oversaw the disease prevention section. In 2021, she left for the United States on a Tibetan scholarship program and returned to the department with a Master's degree in Public Health (Behavior and Community Health) and an additional postgraduate certificate in Sexual and Reproductive Health from Indiana University.
Ngawang Tenzin

North East Zone Head

Tenzin Nyidon was born in the Sonamling Tibetan Settlement in Ladakh. She completed her schooling at TCV Ladakh and her senior secondary education at TCV Bylakuppee. From 2017-2020, she pursued a three-year higher education study in B.Sc with Chemistry, Botany, and Biotech at St. Joseph Autonomous College in Bangalore. After completing her studies, she spent six months in Intensive Tibetan study at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, followed by two months of Tibetan study at the Library of Tibetan Works and Achieves. In April 2023, she began working at the Central Tibetan Administration and worked as an intern in the Department of Finance through Tibet Corps for a month. She passed the civil servant exam and began working at the Department of Health, CTA on May 23, 2023. As of now, she holds the position of project officer and is responsible for overseeing renovation and infrastructure procurement for Health Centers under the Water and Sanitation desk.
Tenzin Nyidon

Tuting and Tenzigang Coordinator

Penpa Bhuti was born in Kollegal Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka and she did her schooling from CST Kollegal till class X and class XII from CST Mundgod. After completing her schooling she went to St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore to do her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. In the year 2021, she attended six months Intensive Course on Tibetan Language and Buddhist Philosophy in Gyumed Monastery, Hunsur. In the following year, she attended two months language course and three months translation course from the Library of Tibetan Works and Achieves. In the year 2022 December 19, she started working in the Department of Health as a TB Program Coordinator.
Penpa Bhuti

Tezu and Miao Coordinator

Tenzin Sonam joined Central Tibetan Administration in May 2011. He did his schooling at Tibetan Children's Village School at Gopalpur, Dharamsala. He had graduated with BA from Delhi University. He took the current responsibility as an HIV & Substance Abuse prevention Desk Coordinator in 2014. He coordinates the admission of people willing to come out of addiction in different rehab centers. He also coordinates the health provisions provided to HIV-positive patients and creates awareness regarding the same.
Tenzin Sonam

Ravangla, Gangtok, Darjeeling and Bhutan Coordinator

After completing her schooling from CST Shimla and college at Punjab University, Chandigarh. She was recruited in the Tibetan Civil Service in December 2008, before joining the media section of the Health Department in July 2012. Previously she served as a Sponsorship Coordinator in the Education Department, CTA. She took her current role of handling the administrative in charge of all the health centers across the settlements in June 2019.
Tashi Yangzom

Nepal, Sonada and Governing Body Meeting Coordinator

Tenzin Youtso, is a trained nurse and current coordinates in Hepatitis Control Project. She is an alumnus of Tibetan Children Village School and has completed her General Nursing Degree from Bakul Tambath Institute of Nursing Education, based in Pune. After the graduation, she had the privilege of serving as a nurse at Palpung Sherabling Monastery, for two years. She also served as a nurse in NGO, Tibet Charity for around year. During COVID-19 pandemic she served as a contract nurse at a quarantine center under the Tibetan Settlement Office, Dharamsala. She joined the Department of Health in April 2021 and since then have been serving the department with various capacitites.
Tenzin Youtso

Shillong and Dimapur Coordinator

Kalden Tsomo is the Program Officer for the Tibetan Medicare System section of the DOHe since August 2023. Prior to this, she was the UN Advocacy Officer at the Office of Tibet, Geneva, Switzerland, from September 2018 to July 2023. She also headed the UN, EU and Human Rights desk of the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) before she moved to the Office of Tibet in Geneva. Kalden holds an M.Phil degree in Organisational Behaviour. She received all her schooling education from Tibetan Children Village (TCV).
Kalden Tsomo

TMS Program Coordinator

Tashi Tsomo was born in Kathmandu, Nepal and did her schooling from TCV School Upper, Dharamshala. She completed her education and received a degree in general nursing and midwifery from Dr. MVST, Mangalore, before beginning her first job as a nurse at TPHC, Delhi. She was transferred to the Department of Health, Dharamshala under the Tibetan Medicare System in 2016 and currently working under the same.
Tashi Tsomo

TMS Nurse

Sangje Dondup was born in Tuting settlement situated in Arunachal Pradesh. He did his primary schooling from Sambhota Tibetan School, Chauntra in 2010 and secondary education from Central School for Tibetan, Mussoorie to pursue Science Stream in 2012. He graduated from Nagindas Khandwala College from Mumbai University and also received a year course in B.SC Computer Science in 2016. He joined Department of Health on 17th July 2017 as an office Assistant and works in the Tibetan Medicare System.
Sangje Dondup

TMS Data Analyst

Tenzin Nordon first completed her training as a community health worker (CHW) at Delek Hospital in 2003, then continued a career as a CHW for two years at the Kullu Tibetan Primary Health Care Centre. In 2005, she recieved a scholarship from the Department of Education under the guidance of the Department of Health for general nursing and midwifery at Hyderbad. From 2009 to 2019, Tenzin Nordon worked as a nurse at Tenzingang Primary Healthcare Centre, Mainpat Primary Healthcare Centre, and Tibet Charity in Dharamshala. As of April, she has been working as a staff nurse under the DoHe in the Tibetan Medicare System (TMS).
Tenzin Nordon

TMS Nurse

Sangmo Bhuti completed primary schooling from SOS TCV Suja and graduated +2 science from Upper TCV in Dharamshala. In 2012, she received her nursing degree from Dr. MV Shetty College of Nursing under Rajiv Gandhi University. Afterwards, she worked as a staff nurse at Mendata-The Medicity Hospital in Gurgoan and at Max Hospital in New Delhi. In 2016, she joined as TMS dealing staff in Dharamshala. Currently, she works as a TMS Nurse at CTA under the Tibetan Volunteer Health Association.
Sangmo Bhuti

TMS Nurse