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our board

N Rangachary - Chairman

Mukti Bosco - Co- Founder & Secretary

Mukti Bosco - Co- Founder & Secretary

He’s the founding Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA). He has also been the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes and Central Depository Services Limited. He currently chairs Equitas Holdings Private Limited and Srinidhi. AIG and Max New York Life are among the companies for which he’s been a board member.

Mukti Bosco - Co- Founder & Secretary

Mukti Bosco - Co- Founder & Secretary

Mukti Bosco - Co- Founder & Secretary

Mukti Bosco, co-founder of Healing Fields, has utilized her deep understanding of rural communities and their needs to pioneer a series of community-driven innovations in health and women's empowerment. Mukti's twenty-year journey in developing community health and empowerment began with one of the first micro-insurance programs in India and has expanded to include education, health services and livelihood development. Today, Mukti leads a preventative health education program that reaches over 9 million families in India. She is now working to enable women's agency to amplify the ability to access and hold health systems accountable for 300 million people in India by 2030. In 2022, Mukti was awarded the Roux Prize by the IHME for using data to empower women and improve access to rural healthcare in India.

Uttam Patel - Treasurer

Mukti Bosco - Co- Founder & Secretary

Nimish Parekh - Co-Founder and Member

Uttam Patel is a Chartered Accountant and a partner at Patel Mohan Ramesh & Co. An experienced financial consultant, he provides end-to-end local tax solutions (VAT and Income Tax) at Hyderabad. He has a rich experience with financial consulting and Investment banking. He specializes in structuring the financials of a company.

Nimish Parekh - Co-Founder and Member

Nimish Parekh - Co-Founder and Member

Nimish Parekh - Co-Founder and Member

Nimish Parekh is a healthcare entrepreneur and launched the first Third Party Administrator in India by Sedgwick Parekh Health Management in 1996. He is the co-founder, and besides, he is also a member of the Advisory Board on Voluntary Health Insurance at the World Bank and has served on different committees within IRDA, CII, etc.

Sujatha Rao IAS (Retd) - Member

Nimish Parekh - Co-Founder and Member

Sujatha Rao IAS (Retd) - Member

Sujatha Rao is a former Union Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. In her career span of 36 years, she has worked in the health sector for nearly two decades. She represented India on the Board of the Global Fund, a member of the Global Advisory Panel.

Babu Joseph - Member

Nimish Parekh - Co-Founder and Member

Sujatha Rao IAS (Retd) - Member

Babu Jospeh has been the Executive Trustee and CEO of Axis Bank Foundation. A postgraduate in Agriculture specialising in Horticulture, he is also a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. He has over 35 years of experience in the Banking Industry with a special focus on the rural sector and micro enterprises.

Siva Chittor - Member

Abhishek Poddar - Member

Abhishek Poddar - Member

Siva is a Chartered Accountant and is involved in our financial management, budgeting, approving of financial policies and statutory compliance.

Abhishek Poddar - Member

Abhishek Poddar - Member

Abhishek Poddar - Member

Abhishek Poddar is the Managing Director of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (India) Pvt. Ltd, and was a partner in A.T Kearney’s Gurgaon office with 15+ years of consulting experience. He has broad expertise in strategy, business transformation, operational performance enhancement, and organizational restructuring. He has deep industry experience in the power, oil and gas, metal and mining, and infrastructure sectors. He’s been an advisor in companies and business conglomerates across the Asia Pacific region.

Sanjay Jesrani - Member

Abhishek Poddar - Member

Sanjay Jesrani - Member

Sanjay Jesrani is the Founder and CEO of Go North Ventures, a proprietary angel investment firm focused on investing and mentoring Startups. As a member of the Indian Angel Network, Sanjay has invested in startups across the Healthcare, Deeptech, Unmanned Aerial, Sustainability, Impact, Consumer and Fintech sectors. 

Six new donors join our journey...

Six new donors join our journey...

Six new donors join our journey...

Six new donors join our journey...

Six new donors join our journey...

Six new donors join our journey...

our TEAM

Mukti Bosco - CEO & Secretary General

Sandeep Panikkal - General Manager - Operations

Gayathri Prashanth - Chief Operating Officer

Mukti Bosco, co-founder of Healing Fields, has utilized her deep understanding of rural communities and their needs to pioneer a series of community-driven innovations in health and women's empowerment. Mukti's twenty-year journey in developing community health and empowerment began with one of the first micro-insurance programs in India and has expanded to include education, health services and livelihood development. Today, Mukti leads a preventative health education program that reaches over 9 million families in India. She now works to enable women's agency to amplify the ability to access and hold health systems accountable for 300 million people in India by 2030. In 2022, Mukti was awarded the Roux Prize by the IHME for using data to empower women and improve access to rural healthcare in India.

Gayathri Prashanth - Chief Operating Officer

Sandeep Panikkal - General Manager - Operations

Gayathri Prashanth - Chief Operating Officer

Gayathri Prashanth has led at the intersection of public health and women’s empowerment for over 15 years. She is the COO of Healing Fields Foundation, leading program design, implementation and research. At Healing Fields, she has grown the Community Health Entrepreneur Program to reach 9 million people in India and over 100,000 people in Indonesia. She is now working to enable CHEs as telehealth facilitators to bring access to healthcare to India’s rural villages. She sits on the research panel for the Rapid Rural Community Response Coalition (RCRC) and has previously contributed to an international working group on developing financial and social indicators for microinsurance.

Sandeep Panikkal - General Manager - Operations

Sandeep Panikkal - General Manager - Operations

Sandeep Panikkal - General Manager - Operations

He has an MBA and over 15 years of experience in banking and financial consulting. He has worked in banking institutions like HDFC Bank, International Commercial Bank and Development Credit Bank (DCB) in retail, corporate, rural/agriculture banking and financial inclusion. He has also worked extensively in rolling out the banks' microfinance and financial inclusion strategy. At Healing Fields Foundation, he is responsible for the operations and is engaged in the effective scale-up of the community health education programme multiplied with several initiatives with different stakeholders.

Maya Welch - Impact Lead

Gagandeep Singh - Program Lead-Networks & Partnerships

Sandeep Panikkal - General Manager - Operations

Maya holds a degree in Mathematics and Political Economy from Tulane University, where she was honored with the Murphy Institute Public Service Award for her dedication to environmental justice in Louisiana. Recognized as an outstanding alumnus for her commitment to "Maximizing Service," Maya has a background in rural development, particularly in projects focused on the environment and women's empowerment.


At Healing Fields, Maya spearheads the development and implementation of a digital ecosystem, laying the groundwork for a community-owned, data-driven platform. She anchors Monitoring and Evaluation and Communications and contributes to Organizational Development.

Gagandeep Singh - Program Lead-Networks & Partnerships

Gagandeep Singh - Program Lead-Networks & Partnerships

Gagandeep Singh - Program Lead-Networks & Partnerships

Gagandeep has an MBA in healthcare with 10+ years of work experience in development sector organisations and corporates like CDC, NACO, Eye-Q & Fortis. He worked in reputed public health programs like QMS-BB & Labs for Life to strengthen quality management systems in government-run labs and blood banks across 12 states in India. Implemented a program in Himachal Pradesh as a lead to improve the efficiency of RBSK

Jansi Fathima - Telehealth Lead

Gagandeep Singh - Program Lead-Networks & Partnerships

Gagandeep Singh - Program Lead-Networks & Partnerships

Jansi is Telehealth Lead at Healing Fields Foundation. She has a postgraduate in nursing, hospital administration and Product Management.  She has 13 years of experience in Hospital Administration, accreditation and healthcare technology and product development and also monitors implementation aspects. At Healing Fields, she formulates clinical protocols as evidenced-based guidelines, training, technology implementation at the field level and measuring the program's impact.

Dr. Ashwini Kanade - Research Lead

Reju Shaju - Manager Monitoring and Evaluation

Pradeep Rai - Regional Manager Operations

Ashwini Kanade is Research Lead at Healing Fields Foundation. She is a Ph.D. scholar, Public Health Nutrition expert, Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator with over 20 years of work experience. Her expertise is in behavior change - lifestyle management in Non-Communicable Diseases.

Pradeep Rai - Regional Manager Operations

Reju Shaju - Manager Monitoring and Evaluation

Pradeep Rai - Regional Manager Operations

Pradeep graduated with a Masters in Social Science from Varanasi in 2007. He has a total work experience of 10 years. He has valuable work experience from the Steel Authority of India Limited-CSR, Society for Educational and Economic Development (SEED). 

Reju Shaju - Manager Monitoring and Evaluation

Reju Shaju - Manager Monitoring and Evaluation

Reju has been working in the social development sector for over a decade. With a Master’s Degree in Development from Azim Premji University and a Master's in Social Work from Utkal University, he specializes in learning measurement, monitoring, and evaluation. At HFF, he contributes to the planning, implementation, and review of M&E tasks, working closely with teams to ensure program effectiveness. Driven by a passion for creating a world where justice and inclusivity thrive, Reju plays a crucial role in data collection, analysis, and reporting processes, leveraging his expertise to ensure the accuracy and reliability of M&E findings.

Shreeti Thapliyal - Communications Associate

Shreeti Thapliyal - Communications Associate

Shreeti studied Psychology Honours at Ambedkar University, Delhi. She has previously created content for various online platforms. Her passion lies in merging behavioural psychology with a commitment to gender inclusivity and crafting empathetic narratives that empower women. At Healing Fields she has been involved in building the organization's communication, fundraising, and social media strategies.

Dr. Jaya Vedamony - Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Jaya Vedamony - Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Jaya Vedamony - Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Jaya, MD, DGO (Mary George Gold Medal) completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. Since then, she has worked extensively in various Mission Hospitals affiliated with her church, mostly in rural India. She had the privilege of attending an observership program in "High-Risk Pregnancy" at the prestigious Loma Linda University, California, USA, which proved useful in her work among the underprivileged, especially in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Currently, she helps with the telemedicine program, which gives medical access to the interior villages of Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Dr. Sachin - Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Jaya Vedamony - Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Jaya Vedamony - Telehealth Consultant

Dr Sachin, MBBS, completed his BA in Medicine and BA of Surgery in 2014 at Narayan Medical College and Hostpital, Sasaram, Bihar. He has been working in the UP government Health SErvices for two years and works as an on call Physician at hospitals in Varanasi. With Healing Fields, he supports the telehealth programme with diagnosis, treatment and referrals for patients in rural villages in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. 

Dr. Bhatt -Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Jaya Vedamony - Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Bhatt -Telehealth Consultant

Dr. Bhatt offers expertise in Nutritional Foundations for Diabetes Management and specializes in Harm Reduction in Intravenous Drug Use (IDU), certified by King George’s Medical University, Lucknow. With a patient-centred approach, he provides personalized guidance in diabetes management and prioritizes harm reduction strategies for individuals navigating IDU. With Healing Fields, he supports the telehealth programme with diagnosis, treatment and referrals for patients in rural villages in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. 

AWARDS & recognition

Mukti Bosco: Winner of the Roux prize 2022 - for using health evidence in bold ways to make people h

Granting Agency :The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Year 2022 https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/library/2022-roux-prize-recipient-mukteshwari-mukti-bosco

Top 50 last mile responder to COVID-19

Granting Agency :The World Economic Forum

https://widgets.weforum.org/lastmiletop50india/healing-fields-foundation/

Year 2021

+1 Global Fund Awardee 2020 granted by for its high impact during COVID-19.

Granting Agency :The Roddenberry Foundationhttps://roddenberryfoundation.org/our-work/plus-one-global-fund/

Year 2020

Winner WEGO awards

Winner WEGO awards

Granting Agency : Opportunity International year 2020

https://opportunity.org/we-go

Finalist for Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2019

Granting Agency :Jubilant Bhartia Foundation

https://www.jubilantbhartiafoundation.com/social-entrepreneurs/seoy-2019

Year 2019

Ashoka Fellow

Granting Agency :Ashoka

https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/our-network/ashoka-fellows/search?search_term=mukti%20bosco

Year 2007

2023 Second Synergy and Sustainability Symposium

“Innovation in ensuring last mile access to primary healthcare” - Healing Fields was recognised as a leader in "innovation in securing last mile accessibility of primary healthcare" at the second Synergy and Sustainability Symposium by India Donates. 


2023 Glenmark Nutrition Awards

First place, Rural Division - Organised by the Glenmark Foundation, recognised non-profits and institutions that undertook efforts to address the issues of hunger and malnutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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