Passion for healthcare innovation; passion for building an India where healthcare is equitable, affordable, and easily accessible; passion for driving better understanding of the healthcare stakeholders, while fostering cross-sector relationships in the Indian healthcare ecosystem is what drives the team to build and scale IYHP.
Through its initiatives, IYHP is hoping to positively impact the Indian Healthcare ecosystem
Members of the Board
Shrrinesh BALA
Shrrinesh is part of the Investment Team at Accel focusing on healthtech investments. He is excited about supporting ventures leveraging digital technologies such as AI/ML to enable India’s leapfrog to an affordable, accessible and equitable healthcare delivery system. Shrrinesh is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
Pallavi CHADHA Pallavi is an innovative financing professional at Kois, an impact investing and innovative finance firm, where she focuses on healthcare. Pallavi is excited about the consumerization of healthcare and how digital health devices and services are shifting the scale towards the consumer. Outside work, Pallavi indulges in theatre/improv, and finds herself at home in the world of fantasy fiction. Pallavi attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi and is an incoming MBA candidate at Harvard Business School. Dipesh CHAWLA Dipesh is part of the Investment Team at Endiya Partners, focusing on early-stage investments in healthcare and technology. He previously worked at 57 Stars where he focused on direct and secondary investments across emerging markets. Dipesh is excited about entrepreneurship, impact, and design, and particularly the role new technology and startups can play in creating solutions to global challenges ranging from healthcare access to climate change. Dipesh attended Brown University.
Manav FAKEY Manav is currently a Consultant at Orbees Medical, a global strategy consulting firm specializing in the health technology industry. Manav looks forward to the growth potential of the medical technology and the digital health industry in India. Outside work, Manav is either found playing poker or shouting at Manchester United players. Manav attended Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani. Ria GOLECHA Ria is a Project Coordinator at the Harvard School of Public Health — India Research Center, wherein she liaises with Harvard Faculty and project partners in India on health communications projects. Ria’s interests lie in developing innovative and inclusive strategies for public health communications. She is intrigued by how vulnerable bottom-of-the-pyramid populations receive and relate to health related information, and is keen on democratizing access by exploring innovative ways to disseminate this information. Outside work, Ria takes keen interest in art and runs a non-profit that supports under-resourced puppeteers in peri-urban slums in West Delhi with 2000+ muppets performances to their credit across India. Ria is an incoming MPH candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Divanshu KAPILA Divanshu works in the Strategy and M&A team at Cipla and was previously a banker within the healthcare coverage group at JPM. Divanshu is excited about the potential of digital therapeutics, and innovative technologies which can unlock efficiencies in the pharma supply chain. Outside work, Divanshu is a movie buff and self-proclaimed film critic who likes romance/drama flicks. Divanshu is a graduate of Thapar University, Patiala. Udith KRISHNA Udith currently works as a Project Manager in the CEO’s Office at Abbott India where he focuses on strategic projects. Udith is passionate about empowering the consumer in making better and more informed personal healthcare decisions and is always on the lookout for innovative solutions and strategies that can improve consumers’ awareness and understanding of healthcare. When not wearing his strategist hat, Udith is found on his musical instruments playing or composing music. Udith is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Vikram PATEL Vikram is the Co-Founder and CTO of DocVita, an online platform that allows tele-consultations with India’s leading doctors, which they pivoted to after developing a voice-enabled AI Medical Assistant product to increase HCP productivity in clinical setting. He keenly follows the adoption trends of new healthcare technologies and is excited about the application of Voice AI in the healthcare space. Vikram attended Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Aditi RAO
Aditi works as a Global Health Analyst at Equalize Health, a not-for-profit medical technology company that works to close the gap in access to quality medical devices for the bottom-of-the-pyramid population, where she focuses on assessing impact and the implementability of these medical technologies in low-resource settings for the new product development team. Aditi is interested in researching factors that enable equitable adoption, implementation, and sustainment of health care policies and programs in India. When not obsessing about impact, Aditi enjoys listening to and playing music, reading voraciously, regularly falling off horse’s backs, and exploring new places. Aditi is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Durham University. Shaurya RASTOGI Shaurya works as a Chief of Staff to CEO and Corporate Development Associate at Axio Bio, a venture-backed medical technology company specializing in biomaterials based medical devices for the global wound care market. He is excited about the potential of the medical device industry in India and how India can be the medical device manufacturer for the world. On those rare occasions when Shaurya is not thinking about healthcare, business, and healing, Shaurya is a beachcomber of people experiences, likes to miss shots on squash court, and enjoys being outdoors. Shaurya is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park and the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. Ujjwal SAHNI Ujjwal works as a Financial Analyst at Houlihan Lokey as part of the healthcare coverage team where he focuses on valuation advisory across the spectrum of the healthcare and life sciences industries. Ujjwal passionately follows novel advances in biotechnology, diagnostics, and life science research tools, and likes to read literature. Ujjwal attended Emory University. Roshan TATHED Roshan is an Associate at the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, an alliance of 24 leading Indian pharma companies, committed to patient care in India and across the world, where he focuses on project management initiatives. Roshan is excited about the emerging health-tech landscape in India, specifically how technological solutions are becoming pervasive and impacting the pharma value chain. Outside work, Roshan is a globetrotter and loves immersing himself in new cultures. Roshan attended Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Akshit THAMAN Akshit covers healthcare as part of the private equity directs team at True North. Akshit is excited about how value-creation in legacy ventures across healthcare subsectors is increasingly being led by deployment of technology solutions, which speaks volumes about the potential of digital solutions for unlocking value in the sector. When Akshit is not busy understanding some new business models, he is found on the tennis courts and cricket pitches. Akshit attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. Board Observers Anubhav GOYAL Anubhav is an Investment Associate at Chiratae Ventures, where he focuses on evaluating investments in early-stage healthtech amongst other sectors. Anubhav is excited about value-based healthcare and the growing intersection of technology and healthcare that has paved the way for new ways of research, care delivery, outcomes tracking, and business models. Anubhav went to Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Devanathan RAGHUNATHAN Devanathan (“Devan”) is a Healthtech and MedTech lead at PwC Singapore’s Venture Hub where his work supports healthtech and medtech startups from conceptualization to successful and sustainable commercialization. Devan has a passion for identifying need-based innovations in the clinical setting, and is excited about the potential of big data in healthcare and AI/ML in product development. Devan attended IIT Madras, University of Göttingen (Max Planck Institute) for his doctoral studies, and completed his postdoc at MIT.
Committee Members Abhinav DEVARIA Editorial Committee Abhinav works as a Health Innovation Consultant at the George Institute of Global Health and previously worked as part of the Strategy team at NephroPlus, India’s largest chain of dialysis centers. An avid policy enthusiast, Abhinav is closely following the developments in mental health policy space in different regimes around the world, and is excited about the potential of digital health to revolutionize mental care delivery. Abhinav is a graduate of the Vellore Institute of Technology and is an incoming MPP candidate at Sciences Po, Paris.
India Young Healthcare Professionals (IYHP): The Team
Shaurya initiated India Young Healthcare Professionals (IYHP) as a non-profit initiative in early 2020 with the mission to empower young healthcare professionals with the resources to drive meaningful change and positively impact the healthcare sector in India. He soon found himself amongst individuals with similar values who were as excited and sometimes ever more, to execute on the mission and vision. That’s how the team came together.
India Young Healthcare Professionals (IYHP) is an India-based non-profit professional organisation connecting emerging leaders across healthcare disciplines to solve and innovate for India Healthcare.
Healthcare is a complex multi-stakeholder ecosystem and requires professionals with diverse cross-sector knowledge and experiences to drive any meaningful change. With this idea, we set on to build India Young Healthcare Professionals (IYHP) to break the silos and bring together emerging leaders from different healthcare domains on a common platform. Through various initiatives, IYHP promotes cross-pollination of ideas, knowledge and expertise, and seeks to empower young healthcare professionals to become well-rounded and better equipped to solve India’s unique healthcare challenges. Our work serves as a catalyst to accelerate India’s journey towards the achievement of UN SDG III- “Good Health and Well Being for All at All Ages”.
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