Mohammed Shahnawaz

Co-founder

Mohammed Shahnawaz is the co-founder of Khushi Baby (2014)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and women & children from Udaipur.

Mohammed Shahnawaz is an Indian public health professional and the co-founder and chief operating officer of Khushi Baby, a non-profit digital health organisation based in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Khushi Baby began in 2014 as a student project at Yale University and grew into the technical support partner to the Department of Health of the Government of Rajasthan, operating the Community Health Integrated Platform used by community health workers across the state.

Career

Shahnawaz has worked in public health in India for more than a decade, including at UNICEF and with the National Health Mission.

Khushi Baby was conceived in 2014 in a Yale School of Public Health class, where students proposed using near-field communication technology to hold an infant's vaccination record on a wearable pendant. The project won the school's inaugural Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health in 2014, worth $25,000. As the Indian co-founder and chief operating officer, Shahnawaz enabled the team to begin field testing in rural Udaipur.

The organisation's work broadened from the pendant to the Community Health Integrated Platform, a system for community health workers to record and track care. By 2025 the platform was in use by more than 70,000 community health workers and had tracked the health of tens of millions of people, and the organisation had become the technical support partner to Rajasthan's health department.

Recognition

Shahnawaz won a Johns Hopkins University Future Health Systems grant in 2015, and has been named a Global e-Health Observatory laureate. In 2022 he was named a Times Now Amazing Indian for his work on digital innovation in rural healthcare delivery.[2][3][4]

Khushi Baby

Khushi Baby is a health-technology non-profit founded in 2014 in Udaipur, Rajasthan, which began as a student project building NFC-enabled wearable health records for infants. It now runs the Community Health Integrated Platform (CHIP) and Health Action Centres used by frontline community health workers, and serves as a technical support partner to state health departments in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Khushi Baby reports the following, on its own site: