Welcome Anju Ranjit, MBBS, MPH
We are very excited to announce the addition of Anju Ranjit, MBBS, MPH, as an advisor to our board of directors. Dr. Ranjit is a physician from Nepal who brings first hand experience of both the education and medical systems in Nepal to Project for a Village. Dr. Ranjit has been in the US for the past year attending Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Sommer Scholar and has received an MPH. Previously, she worked for two years as a medical officer and medical superintendent at a government district hospital in Syangja, Nepal. She is trained as an advanced skilled birth attendant to provide and manage emergency obstetrics care services. Her previous NGO work includes: maternal and child health intern at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation and social network analyst at Maiti Nepal, an NGO based in Nepal. She is the deputy director of research at Surgeon Overseas and completed a full country survey in Nepal to assess surgical needs. Currently she is working as a post doctoral research fellow with Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her professional interests include: surgical outcomes research for women, cervical cancer, and advocacy for better healthcare and education for women in low and middle-income countries.
Two years ago in Pokhara, Nepal, we walked into a private hospital and were greeted by Dr. Ranjit, who enthusiastically showed us around the small hospital. She told us that she was planning on attending Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the fall of 2013, and we exchanged contact information. That short meeting ended up being the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Throughout this past year we have emailed frequently and she has been very helpful in guiding us with both of the Health Camps held by Project for a Village and Jana-Jyoti in Rupakot, Nepal. Following Anju’s graduation from Hopkins this past May she came to visit us in California. During this visit she shared her ideas for two new projects that PFAV could be involved in, The TEJ Initiative and The AAMA Project. We know that we could never have done anything like this without Anju and are so happy to have her join us at Project for a Village.
We are thrilled that Dr. Ranjit has joined Project for a Village. 