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Listen "ARMMAN’s vision for better maternal and child health in India | Aparna Hegde"
Episode Synopsis
Dr. Aparna Hegde is Founder of NGO ARMMAN, which creates scalable mhealth based programs to impact maternal & child health in 21 states of India (as of August 2024, interventions implemented by ARMMAN have reached 53 million women and trained 430,000 health worker). She is an internationally renowned Urogynecologist trained in Stanford and Cleveland Clinic and Assoc Prof (Hon) and founding Head of Dept. of Urogynecology at Cama Hospital, Mumbai, India’s first University-based Center of Excellence in the field. Dr. Hegde is Chair of FIUGA, the foundation arm of IUGA (International Urogynecology Association), Chair of IUGA Publication Committee and member of the Editorial Board of International Urogynecology Journal. Dr. Hegde is an accomplished researcher with over 75 abstracts/publications, and an NIH grantee. Dr. Hegde was listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2021 (15th spot), and was awarded the Skoll Award (2020), Elevate Prize (2021), Ashoka Senior Fellowship (2021), TED Fellowship (2020) etc.
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