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Dr. Vandita Pahwa

An individual doesn’t get cancer, a
family does.

Terry Tempest Williams

These words of Terry Williams had great
impact on Dr. Vandita Pahwa and after
doing MBBS, she has decided to join
stream which can work for prevention
along with cure because for her
“Prevention is better than cure”
It is normal for youngsters to have dreams
about their future life which have wealth
and luxury but Dr. Vandita had dream to
serve community and that’s why she
zeroed down to preventive medicine. Her
father Mr. S. K Pahwa who himself was
scholar of mathematics and served
Income Tax Department as chief
commissioner, inspired her to join
medicine so that she could serve
community in a country where
availability of health infrastructure to
every Indian was herculean task. After
doing bachelor in Medicine, she
completed her Master in community
medicine with gold medal.
Fulfilling her dream to serve
community, Dr. Vandita joined World
Health Organization (WHO) and as a
member of Rapid Response Team
(RRT), and worked to support Measles-
Rubella Campaign (“MRC”) in Amethi
district of Uttar Pradesh which includes
- supporting district with preparedness,
implementation

and monitoring of MRC, Inter-agency coordination for MRC campaign, supporting district with micro-
planning, capacity-building, implementation and monitoring of MRC. Currently she is working in Tata
Memorial Cancer Hospital (“TMH”) as a Research Fellow in Dept of Preventive Oncology where she is
involved in screening for oral, breast and cervical cancer. She also worked as program officer for INCLEN
(International Clinical Epidemiology Network), India in 2019.
Though She is not directly involved in treating COVID patients but takes care of work at TMH which is also
very important for patients and therefore adjudged as Corona Warrior of Café Social.

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