Garima Gupta

Co-founder

Garima Gupta is the co-founder of Swasth Foundation (2008)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Mumbai.

Garima Gupta, who also uses the name Garima Gupta Kapila, is an Indian social entrepreneur and a co-founder and executive trustee of the Swasth Foundation, a non-profit organisation that provides primary healthcare and wellbeing services in low-income urban communities in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. In 2017 she founded the Swasth Yog Institute, the foundation's wellbeing arm, which trains integrative health practitioners known as Swasth Yog Coaches.

Before entering the non-profit sector she worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and was part of the founding leadership team of Teach For India.

Early life and education

Gupta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2005 with a BTech in computer science and engineering. She subsequently took a Master of Science in Yoga and a postgraduate diploma in yoga therapy, and holds a plant-based nutrition certificate from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. She is a Professional Certified Coach and a practitioner of Integral Somatic Experiencing, and has been a Lown Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Career

Gupta worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and then joined the core leadership team of Teach For India in its start-up years, setting up its Mumbai operations.

She is a co-founder and executive trustee of the Swasth Foundation, which she leads with Sundeep Kapila. The foundation runs the Swasth India Medical Centres, which deliver comprehensive primary healthcare in low-income communities, together with the Swasth Institute.

In 2017 she founded the Swasth Yog Institute, which offers sustained wellbeing services and an integrated life-coach training programme, drawing on yoga, nutrition, coaching and public health research.[2][3][4]

Swasth Foundation

Swasth Foundation runs a network of not-for-profit comprehensive healthcare clinics across Mumbai, offering family medicine and dental care to low-income households at little to no cost.

Swasth Foundation reports the following, on its own site: