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With four decades of experience, Dr. Geeta Chopra is a global voice in Early Childhood Education, Disability Inclusion, and Child Rights. She has shaped national ECCE frameworks, influenced global discourse, created scalable models for disability detection & inclusion, mentored thousands of young minds and built frontline capacity. At 61, choosing purpose to advance child-focused systems change, she stepped out of academia and founded the EveryChild EveryAbility Institute.
DSS is now embedded in India’s national ECCE curricula (Navchetna and Adharshila), likely to enable over 1.4 million Anganwadi workers to detect disabilities early and refer for timely support.
Developed and field tested a comprehensive training module for grass-root community workers for Early Dtection of disabilities in community settings and Inclusion of children with disabilities in community Early Childhood Centres.
At national level, Member of India’s National ECCE Curriculum Committee for finalizing Navchetna and Adharshila. Globally developed for UNICEF HQ a Technical Brief on Parenting support for families with Children with disabilities
Founder, EveryChild EveryAbility Institute with a vision for an equitable world for every child and a mission to help transform isolated interventions into lasting systems change.
Major areas: Early Childhood Education/Development, Childhood Disability, and Child Rights & Protection. As a member of India’s National Expert Committee, she helped finalize Navchetna and Adharshila, shaping early years for millions. Dr. Chopra pioneered the Disability Screening Schedule (DSS), now embedded in national ECCE and used by 1.4 million Anganwadi workers. Author of Child Rights in India (Springer, 2015), she has influenced university teaching. Her new book, Systems Approach to ECD (Springer, 2025), fuses academic rigor with practical engagement.
Let us learn how she brings academic rigor as she engages in professional practice
Mentored 9 doctoral scholars, served on curriculum boards of leading universities, and evaluated research for premier institutions including TISS, JNU, and MS University Baroda.
– Trusted advisor to UNICEF HQ, Government of India, and international organizations, developing frameworks that shape national strategies and reach millions of children.
Featured speaker at international platforms from ARNEC Singapore to UN forums, translating evidence into practice for diverse stakeholders. Presented at several forums. chaired sessions, part of high profile panels.
Designed and delivered 100+ national training programs, creating foundational modules that transformed how 1.4 million frontline workers support children with disabilities.
Principal investigator on award winning World Bank-funded projects, an action research on pregnant women, to innovate to improve the birth weight and birth outcomes. Collaborating with Udayan Care on a pathbreaking reserach to explore the status of Cwd living in CCI in 4 states of India.
Dr. Geeta Chopra works at the intersection of ECD/ECCE, disability, and child protection—bringing visibility to children often excluded from data, services, and systems, at the same time also supporting parenting in the modern times. Through her initiative EveryChild EveryAbility, she drives evidence-based, systemic change a foundational commitment across early childhood and beyond.
Dr. Chopra’s four decades of expertise span three interconnected domains that create lasting systems change for children.
Springer Nature, Forthcoming 2025
Springer India, 2015
UNICEF
Engage Publications (Available in Hindi Also)
Engage Publications (Available in Hindi Also)
Engage Publications (Available in Hindi Also)
