Dr Aparna Hegde
Dr. Aparna Hegde is a Stanford and Cleveland Clinic trained Urogynaecologist. She is Associate Professor (Hon) and the Founding Head of the Department of Urogynaecolgy at Cama Hospital, Mumbai, India’s only University-based Center of Excellence in the field, with an upcoming fellowship program. She is also Consultant Urogynaecologist at Surya Hospital and Global Hospital in Mumbai and the Founder and Director of the Center for Urogynaecology and Pelvic Health, New Delhi.
She is the founder of NGO ARMMAN, which creates scalable mobile health-based programs to impact maternal and child health in 21 states of India. Its five programs have reached over 54 million women and their children and trained over 441,000 health workers.
Dr. Hegde is Chair of FIUGA, (the Foundation for International Urogynaecological Assistance) and Chair of Publication Committee of IUGA and a member of the Editorial Board of International Urogynecology Journal. Dr. Hegde is an NIH grantee and has done pioneering work in the field of 2D/3D pelvic floor ultrasound with over 75 abstracts/publications. She is a member of the International Urogynecology Committee on Prolapse and the 7th International Consultation on Continence. She was awarded the Fellowship of Menopause Society of Sri Lanka for helping develop Urogynecology in Sri Lanka (2021).
Dr. Hegde was listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2021 (15th spot), and was awarded the Skoll award for Social Entrepreneurship (2020), the Kenneth Frazier International award for maternal health equity (2023), Elevate Prize (2021), Women Transforming India award by Niti Aayog (2022), ASHOKA Senior Fellowship (2021), TED Fellowship (2020), WHO Public Health Champion award (2017), British Medical Journal South Asia Award (2018), USAID Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2018), WomanChangeMaker Award (Womanity Foundation, Geneva, 2018), and was one of the five global women leaders featured in the Voice of America documentary, Single Step: Journeys of Women Leaders (2015).