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Dr. Aparna Hegde
Dr. Aparna Hegde is an Indian urogynecologist, tech social entrepreneur and researcher. She is the founder, chairperson and managing trustee of ARMMAN, a Mumbai-based nonprofit organization which leverages technology to create scalable programs to impact maternal and child health. She is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Urogynecology and Pelvic Health in New Delhi and Mumbai, as well as the Founder and Director of the upcoming Tata Center for Urogynecology and Pelvic Health, supported by Tata Trusts and the Government of Maharashtra, at Cama Hospital, Mumbai.

Early Life
Dr. Hegde was born in Mumbai.

Education
Dr. Aparna Hegde holds MD (Mumbai University), DNB, FCPS (Gold Medal), DGO degrees in Obstetrics and Gynecology and an MS degree in biological sciences from Stanford University. She was awarded the IUGA International Fellowship in Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery which she completed from the Department of Urogynecology at Cleveland Clinic Florida.

Urogynecology
Dr. Hegde is the Founder and Director of the Center for Urogynecology and Pelvic Health in New Delhi and Mumbai. She is also the Founder and Director of the upcoming Tata Center for Urogynecology and Pelvic Health, supported by Tata Trusts and the Government of Maharashtra, at Cama Hospital, Mumbai. It is envisaged as one of the first stand-alone tertiary, academic superspecialist Departments of Urogynecology in the country which will be a Center of Excellence in the field with special emphasis on research and public service, both urban and rural. She has been appointed as Honorary (Assistant) Professor of Urogynecology and Head of Department, a post that has been created for her. The Department will offer a 2-year University recognized fellowship in the field, one of the first fellowships in the country based out of a dedicated Department of Urogynecology.

Dr. Hegde is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Urogynecology Journal. She is also a member of the International Urogynecology Committee on Prolapse (IUGA) and the 7th International Consultation on Continence (ICS), august bodies of internationally recognized experts created to develop international guidelines for prolapse and incontinence respectively.

She is an accomplished researcher with multiple international research awards, more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has done pioneering work in the field of 3D and 2D sonographic assessment of the pelvic floor.

ARMMAN (Founder and Managing Trustee)
During her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sion Hospital, Mumbai, Dr. Hegde witnessed how pervasive systemic problems in health systems led to maternal and child deaths that were completely preventable. Unable to tolerate the status quo, she founded ARMMAN in 2008, a Mumbai-based nonprofit organization which leverages technology innovatively to create scalable programs to impact maternal and child health. ARMMAN is one of the largest home-grown tech-for-health NGOs in the country today and its five major programs including its flagship mMitra program have impacted the lives of more than 2 million women and their children in 9 states. ARMMAN currently works in 16 states in the country and has recently entered into a 3-year MOU with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, to manage the two largest mHealth-based programs in the world, Kilkari and Mobile Academy, in a public-private partnership from 2019 - 2022. The two programs are being implemented state-wide in 13 states currently and the plan is to scale them throughout the country in the next few years.

ARMMAN has received:


 * Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship 2020
 * British Medical Journal South Asia Award for ‘Maternal and Child Health Team of the year’ in 2018
 * Grand Challenges Canada Stars in Global Health Award in 2018
 * WHO Public Health Champion Award in the innovation category in 2017
 * Silver award at the Indian Digital Awards in 2017
 * ‘GSK-Save the Children International’ Health Innovation award in 2017

Awards and Recognition
Dr. Hegde received the best paper award at the American Urogynecological Society Annual Meeting in 2013 and has more than 75 publications and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals. She has been invited as an expert to conduct workshops and round tables on her research work at the IUGA and AUGS (American Urogynecology Society) annual meetings since 2014 and at FIGO conference 2018. Dr. Hegde is also a TEDx speaker. She has been featured as one of the five global women leaders in the Voice of America documentary, ‘A Single Step: Journeys of Women Leaders’, voiced over by Oscar award winning actress Sally Field in 2015. She was chosen by Harvard University to attend the SNP program in 2016 and invited by Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School to speak at the social impact panel in the Harvard India Conference in February 2017.

She has received:


 * USAID ‘Social Entrepreneur of the year’ award in 2018
 * ‘Woman ChangeMaker of the year’ award by Geneva-based Womanity Foundation in 2017
 * Woman Icon of the year award in Asia in 2016 by Nanyung University, Singapore
 * Mother Teresa Social Leadership Fellowship in 2016
 * Digital Woman Entrepreneur Award in 2015
 * Top Social Innovator Award in 2014 and 2017
 * ‘People’s Choice Award’ at Saving Lives at Birth event in Washington DC in 2011 by USAID, Gates Foundation, Government of Canada and Norway and World Bank
 * Ganatra award for social work by MOGS in 2013
 * Prerak fellowship by IIM Lucknow in 2014