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Dr. Shrey DesaiResearch Coordinator & Physician , SEWA Rural
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Dr. Desai is a Research Coordinator and Physician at SEWA Rural since 2010. Dr. Shrey Desai completed MD Medicine from Saint Barnabas Medical Center Livingston, New Jersey and Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. After a brief work experience at World Health Organization in the Caribbean, he returned to India in 2010 and has been working at SEWA Rural since then.
SEWA Rural is a voluntary development organization involved in health & development activities in rural, tribal area of Gujarat, India since 1980. SEWA Rural’s focus areas include health care delivery, training, advocacy and research along with improving employability of tribal youth and women empowerment. Over last decade, there has been 75% reduction in maternal deaths and 38% reduction in newborn deaths in SEWA Rural’s project area due to innovative community based interventions. SEWA Rural has received prestigious awards such as inaugural Sasakawa Award by the World Health Organization, and MacArthur Award for being creative and effective organization for improving health of mothers and newborn babies in India.
Now, Dr. Shrey Desai is leading the Research and Development activities in tribal communities and serves in hospital as Internist. SEWA Rural’s strategy has been to use research, development and advocacy to create and scale up new products and processes in the public health system at large which are relevant in the current age. So far, Dr. Shrey Desai and his team at SEWA Rural have developed, implemented and evaluated innovative technology based solutions to critical public health problems facing tribal communities such as infant mortality, undernutrition, sickle cell disease and menstrual health. He has authored many research papers in the international peer reviewed journals.
SEWA Rural is a voluntary development organization involved in health & development activities in rural, tribal area of Gujarat, India since 1980. SEWA Rural’s focus areas include health care delivery, training, advocacy and research along with improving employability of tribal youth and women empowerment. Over last decade, there has been 75% reduction in maternal deaths and 38% reduction in newborn deaths in SEWA Rural’s project area due to innovative community based interventions. SEWA Rural has received prestigious awards such as inaugural Sasakawa Award by the World Health Organization, and MacArthur Award for being creative and effective organization for improving health of mothers and newborn babies in India.
Now, Dr. Shrey Desai is leading the Research and Development activities in tribal communities and serves in hospital as Internist. SEWA Rural’s strategy has been to use research, development and advocacy to create and scale up new products and processes in the public health system at large which are relevant in the current age. So far, Dr. Shrey Desai and his team at SEWA Rural have developed, implemented and evaluated innovative technology based solutions to critical public health problems facing tribal communities such as infant mortality, undernutrition, sickle cell disease and menstrual health. He has authored many research papers in the international peer reviewed journals.