Talk:Sheetal Amte

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With her diverse educational background and experience, she is working to strengthen the most essential pillars of rural system-health, education and sustainable village development. She has been working on creating door-step health museums to poor people and school children for spreading awareness and information about preventable diseases, nutrition, insurance & health rights which may further substantially reduce disease burden in their village. She is an adviser to Express Public Health Awards and a member of Jury. She has also been awarded an award grant for setting up ‘Centre of Excellence for Medical Leadership, ethics and Motivation’ at Anandwan by Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and WHO alliance. She also organizes multiple free health camps in various domains such as reconstructive surgery, cataract removal, skin, psychiatric and retinal diseases, diabetes detection and treatment at Anandwan for benefitting rural poor. She serves on the advisory board of India’s leading public health institutes- Indian Institute of Public Health and Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi. She is also experienced in working with children and youth with disabilities across a wide spectrum ranging from education, physical and medical rehabilitation to building innovative business model for gainful employment. She also works with rural schools to reform their education systems through IT systems, health and nutritional counselling to children.

Currently she is also engaged in an ambitious project of making Anandwan one of its kind ’smart village’ in the country by making it smarter, technologically efficient, economically productive and environmentally sensitive. She was selected as a Member of World Economic Forum Expert Network on Humanitarian Response. She is an active part of ‘SABI’- South Asian Bridge Initiative that aims to set up constructive philanthropic models in South Asia.

Currently she is working as an Adviser to ‘i4P’ (Innovations for Peace), an initiative of World Summit on Innovation and United Nations. She is also the recipient of 2016 INK fellowship. She works as an Academy Member and Jury of 1 million USD ‘Global Teacher Prize’ which is given to teachers for excellence in their profession. She is also a member of various policy level education, agricultural and entrepreneurship development and healthcare innovation committees that include governmental and non-governmental apex committees such as WHO and Lancet Commission on Global Surgery on rural surgical health and leadership, distance education committees of Mumbai University and an empowered committee for mid-day meal set up by Government of India.

She is also an accomplished professional photographer with a few international awards and helps NGOs document their work through photographs.

Her professional qualification includes an MBBS degree with a gold medal in surgery, Master’s degree in Social Entrepreneurship from Tata Institute of Social Sciences with silver medal, Certificate in Non-profit Governance, a diploma in financial management and accountability from Financial Management Service Foundation-TISS alliance and an Executive Education in Global Leadership and Public Policy for 21st Century from Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MurielMary (talk) 11:59, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]