Dr. Sokhey, Additional Director General of Health Services, a senior public health specialist of the Central Health Services took charge of the National Institute of Biologicals in September 2008.In her long career in the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government since June 1977, she has been involved at the national level in providing technical support, coordination with state health authorities and monitoring large national programmes such as the Expanded Programme on Immunization, Child Survival and Safe Motherhood, National Disease Surveillance Programme, National Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, the Yaws Eradication Programme, the State Health Systems Project, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, including the Enhanced Malaria Control Project in tribal districts supported by the World Bank.She has also supervised the work of the vaccine manufacturing institutes in the country and 17 regional offices of Health and Family Welfare located in all the major states from October 2004 to June 2006.Before joining NIB she was the Additional Project Director of the National AIDS Control Programme in the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and was in-charge of technical matters related to HIV/AIDS, ART, paediatric care, drug resistance, STIs, Blood Safety and Blood Transfusion Services. She represented the country in the UNAIDS Board meetings.

Her significant involvement in all these programmes was the development of objective action oriented training material to ensure cohesive, uniform and quality services in a large and diverse country.Training of senior medical and health personnel was a major component of all national programmes.A large number of surveys have been conducted to estimate disease burden, assess knowledge, aptitude and practices and vaccination coverage.

As part of her responsibilities she has interacted closely with the state health directorates, medical colleges and other governmental and non-governmental organisations and international agencies, visited a large number of both urban and rural health facilities and interacted with personnel working at the grassroots level

As Director, Family Welfare, Government of Delhi; Director,National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Director, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, she has vast administrative experience in the preparation and monitoring of the health budget, administrative matters related to sanction of leave, advances, disciplinary action etc. apart from formulation of project proposals, technical notes and field monitoring and evaluation.

As Additional Project Director, State Health Systems Development Project gave her a unique opportunity to look at the health systems development, which aimed at improving and widening the accessibility of a range of medical specialities, and also introduce health services reforms, at district and sub-district level in a broader perspective.As Director, National Vector Borne Diseases Dr Sokhey was overall in-charge of the control of malaria, kala azar, filariasis, Japanese Encephalitis and dengue fever.A special drive for the control of malaria was taken up in 100 PHCs in tribal districts of 8 states with high incidence of P.falciparum under the Enhanced Malaria Control Project with World Bank support.The phase II of the project included all vector borne diseases in vulnerable areas.Mass drug administration with DEC was started in all the endemic districts in 2004.A project was approved by GFATM for control of malaria in the north eastern region of the country.

She has attended more than 50 WHO and other international meetings and workshops.  More than 50 technical papers have been published apart form various training modules, project proposals etc.

Dr Sokhey is a life member of the Indian Association of Epidemiologists;Indian Society for Malaria and Other Communicable Diseases; Indian Association of Paediatrics; Indian Public Health Association and Indian Medical Association