Grand Challenges Spotlight Talk (Female Founders and a SuperApp: Democratizing Healthcare in Pakistan). Iffat Zafar Aga, Co-founder & Chief Operations Officer, Sehat Kahani, Pakistan
Highlighting the importance of using R&D to provide care in times of crisis, Iffat Zafar speaks about how her organization, Sehat Kahani, works to provide healthcare to marginalized and isolated communities via telemedicine. She describes how Sehat Kahani’s Network of E-Health Centers has helped fill a major gap in healthcare access in Pakistan, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and envisions a future in which the network is scaled around the world for countries facing the same healthcare challenges.