Manmeet Kaur

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Overview

Manmeet Kaur (pronounced “mun-meeth kawr”) has been a champion for healthier communities and equitable livelihoods for the past 10 years. She has worked in New York City to improve the working conditions of “unregulated” workers, in India to stabilize the chaotic lives of construction day laborers at a social enterprise called LabourNet, and in South Africa to help HIV+ individuals build their own health food business with Mamelani Projects. Before launching City Health Works, Manmeet was an advisor to the Earth Institute’s strategy on the retention and financing of community health workers in the Millennium Villages Project, which has contributed to the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign across Sub-Saharan Africa. In launching City Health Works, Manmeet saw the potential for reverse innovation from lower cost community health systems across the world applied to domestic health. Manmeet incubated City Health Works while completing an MBA at Columbia with the goal of creating an organization that harnesses the power of community members to create jobs and improve health in New York City. Manmeet also has a B.A. in History/Anthropology from Barnard College, where she was selected as a Third Millennium Human Rights fellow. Manmeet was born and raised in New York City and lives in Harlem with her husband and son.