Sara Saeed Khurram
 Sara Saeed Khurram    (executive) | |
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| Alma mater | Dow University of Health Sciences, Aga Khan University |
| Member of | WEF/Young Global Leaders/2022 |
| Interests | telemedicine |
WEF YGL 2022 "social entrepreneur" beloved by international foundations. Started a company that the Pakistan government endorsed as "their official telemedicine partner" with respect to COVID-19. | |
Sara Saeed Khurram in 2017[1] started Sehat Kahan, a telemedicine company which, the provincial and federal Pakistan governments endorsed as "their official telemedicine partner" with respect to COVID-19.[2]
Foundation support
She is a Cherie Blair Foundation alumni.[3]
Her organization DoctHERS received the UNICEF Global Goals Awards in 2016, as part of ongoing efforts to rally support for the Sustainable Development Goals.[4]
In 2021, she also was selected as a recipient of the "WE Empower UN SDG Challenge" award, a first-of-its-kind global competition for women social entrepreneurs who are advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals.[5]
Khurram has won the Rolex Awards 2019 as Ass. Laureate, TIAW Award, CRDF Global Award, Ashoka Changemakers, ISIF Asia, The Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, and Arpatech Young Entrepreneurs Award 2017. She is also a Cartier Awards finalist and the first frontier Innovator from Pakistan. She is a 2016 Acumen fellow, a TEDx speaker, and has been part of programs such as Invest2Innovate, Frontier and the Amplify program.[3]
Career
In 2021, she raised $1 million dollars from "leading global investors", including Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Development Bank; Washington-based 10Pearls Ventures; Silicon Valley-based Mentor’s Fund; Singapore-based Korean Impact Collective Funds and Impact Investment Exchange (IIX).KASB; and Din Group from Pakistan.[6]
She was part of the Coca‑Cola Foundations "COVID-19 Immunization and Prevention" program. In March 2022 Khurram presented the project achievements thus far, "Despite 101 million people infected in Pakistan, there’s still a lot of misconception surrounding COVID-19. There was a dire need for a campaign to promote awareness regarding COVID-19 and its vaccines. The COVID-19 Immunization and Awareness program, which was executed in collaboration with the Health Services Academy, Sindh Education Foundation, and UNDP, and through the support of The Coca‑Cola Foundation along with the government of Sindh helped in increasing awareness and uptake of vaccines in areas where hesitancy was high."[7]
References
- ↑ https://news.trust.org/item/20210520005214-ibrgd
- ↑ https://startup.info/sara-saeed-khurram-sehat-kahani/
- ↑ a b https://www.womenlifthealth.org/profile/sara-saeed-khurram/
- ↑ https://tribune.com.pk/story/1186363/pakistani-organisation-wins-global-goals-award-new-york
- ↑ https://www.arabnews.com/node/1896881/%7B%7B
- ↑ https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2021/03/15/sehat-kahani-raises-1-million-pre-series-a-to-expand-its-telemedicine-network-in-pakistan/
- ↑ https://www.coca-cola.com/pk/en/media-center/closing-ceremony-of-covid-19-immunization-and-prevention-program-by-sehat-kahani-in-collaboration-with-health-services-academy-sindh-education-foundation-and-undp-supported-by-the-coca-cola-foundation
