Who We Are
Anahat USA supports the on ground activities of Anahat Foundation, a non-profit registered in India that aims to provide healthcare to underserved and marginalised communities through community medical camps and primary healthcare clinics, offering free clinical consultation, medicines and diagnostic services. Our vision is that every citizen should be healthy and well, with equal access to the highest quality health services. Through our free clinic and health camps, we demonstrate best-in-class operating procedures and systems for providing free healthcare, and a model to provide free healthcare at a low cost, at scale.
People
Board of Trustees
Geetha Vijay
Geetha has lived in Rochester New York since 1993 and been active in the non profit space of this town for many years now. She has helped build a couple of homes for Habitat for Humanity, was active in RAIHN (Rochester Area Inter-faith Homeless Network) pre-covid and has been actively involved in Saathi for Rochester (a Domestic Violence agency which assists victims of DV from South Asia) where she is now the President.
Rani Desai
Rani is an experienced public health professional, passionate about ensuring that healthcare is inclusive and equitable. She has worked in the development sector for over two decades, leading Biocon Foundation for 12 years, between 2005 and 2017. She led the foundation’s preventive and primary healthcare programs under which 8 primary health centres were run across Karnataka. The Foundation also collaborated with the state governments of Rajasthan and Karnataka, to manage and support government primary health centres and sub-centres. Rani initiated strong interventions for early detection, prevention, and management of chronic diseases, including oral, breast, and cervical cancer, and diabetes and hypertension. Among the many awards that the Foundation won under Rani’s leadership, the award and recognition that she treasures the most is the first Public Health Champion award presented by the World Health Organization, India in 2015.
Leadership
Priya Desai
Priya has been working for almost two decades, beginning her career as a copywriter in the advertising industry before moving to the development sector in India in 2011. She has worked on social issues related to water, sanitation, the environment, literacy and public health. She is one of the co-founders of Anahat, and has always been passionate about social work and helping the underprivileged. Prior to Anahat she led Marketing and Communications for a nonprofit children’s book publisher and an open knowledge platform for water issues for a charitable trust in Bangalore, India. She is now driving the Preventive Health Programme at Anahat.