Dr. Aparna Hegde is one of the new GLG Social Impact Fellows. GLG is a World Insight Network and provides multi-year access to their full range of services to GLG Fellows. Read more about the new class of Fellows.
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Dr. Aparna Hegde and ARMMAN have won the 2021 Elevate Prize. We are one of 10 winners selected out of 1273 applicants from 92 countries. We have been awarded for our use of mobile technology to enable healthy pregnancies, safe deliveries, and healthy childhoods. The prize, powered by MIT Solve, partners with social entrepreneurs and
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ARMMAN is happy to share that we have partnered with Bayer Foundation India (BFI) for the implementation of mMitra in Maharashtra, and Kilkari and Mobile Academy in Bihar. BFI works towards advancing public health, agriculture and sustainability, focusing on women-centric approaches and innovative technology-based solutions to bridge the healthcare gap in the country. We look
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ARMMAN has been awarded a design grant from Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative for systems change, to further develop, advance, and test our systems change strategy and approach. This will give us an opportunity to articulate clear outcomes and pathways to change and strengthen our partnerships, address critical challenges and support our broader efforts to
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We are proud to be recognised by the World Economic Forum’ COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs as one of India’s India’s Top 50 COVID-19 Last Mile Responders to the pandemic. Our COVID-19 interventions provided critical information relating to COVID via mobile phone to 800,000 frontline health workers, over 17,700 women and children have called our
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ARMMAN is increasing the scope of its COVID-19 interventions by upskilling frontline health workers with the support of Google.org. 180,000 ASHAs and 40,000 ANMs will be trained in COVID-19 management skills including recognition, treatment and prevention of the disease in 15 states of India. These frontline health workers will be supported via a call centre
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ARMMAN is happy to share that we have partnered with The David Weekley Family Foundation, a US based organisation that practices a venture philanthropy model of giving. The foundation supports projects that work on supports health, livelihoods, and justice in Africa, Asia and in USA. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with
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Dr. Aparna Hegde has been featured on Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list. She is #15 and one of only two Indians on the list which features extraordinary achievers who stepped up during the pandemic to respond to the unexpected crisis. Fortune has specifically highlighted ARMMAN’s quick response to COVID-19, along with our model that
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Google.org is supporting ARMMAN to scale our efforts in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve maternal and child health in India. Our project with Google Research India and IIT Madras uses AI to predict the risk of women dropping out of healthcare programs such as mMitra and helps us to personalise interventions for an improved engagement.
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ARMMAN is thrilled to share that we have partnered with Netri Foundation, a Spanish organisation that provides investments to projects with a social impact in developing countries. The Netri Foundation will support our mMitra project that sends free critical preventive care information as voice calls to mobile phones of women during pregnancy and infancy.
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