Monica Nirmala

Monica’s project explores the model and implementation of Total Health, a CSR initiative by Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, that provides holistic health care to 60,000 people in Thavanampalle Mandal (Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India) starting from the birth, through their journey into childhood, adolescence, adulthood and in the latter years of lives.

Monica is an MPH student from Indonesia, in Global Health and Population department. Her interests lie on the intersection of human and ecosystem health, as well as country-level health systems and economics. She has 6 years of work experience in managing a non-profit in rural Indonesia, providing healthcare, economic empowerment, and conservation programs to the underprivileged community living nearby the rainforest of Gunung Palung National Park.