The Power of E-Health in Creating Healthcare Accessibility | Iffat Zafar | TEDxZiauddinUniversity

IFFAT Zafar is Cofounder and CDO of Sehat Kahani; a Pakistani social health tech enterprise aimed at bridging the gap between a home-bound female work force and rural areas lacking access to healthcare. Dr. Iffat Zafar is a graduate of Ziauddin Medical University. She is the cofounder and Chief Development Officer of a health tech social enterprise named Sehat Kahani. She is currently doing her masters in Global E-Health from University of Edinburgh for which she has received CommonWealth Scholarship. She has won and has been the recipient of many international awards such as the GIST Tech I award (a US State Department funded award) and the World Bank Award for Sehat Kahani. She was nominated by the USAID Funded MITBAP program to go to MIT for the Entrepreneurship Development Program. She has also been a part of the SPRING Accelerator (a DFID, USAID AND Nike Foundation backed program) and very recently she won the GSMA funding for Sehat Kahani; a very prestigious global funder for digital technology based startups. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx