Priyanka Motimath

Healthcare innovator building mobile medical networks for India's remote regions

Priyanka Motimath is the founder of Aasha Healthcare, a social enterprise launched in 2020 that has transformed healthcare access in India's hardest-to-reach areas. Her team's Health on Wheels initiative operates 200 modified trucks equipped with telemedicine systems, laboratory facilities, and dental clinics that travel to rural villages. By 2024, this program had provided care to over 2 million people in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, diagnosing early-stage cancers and diabetes cases that would otherwise go undetected. Motimath pioneered India's first blockchain-based medical records system for nomadic communities, ensuring continuity of care across seasonal migrations. Her partnership with UNICEF expanded polio vaccination drives to 150 tribal villages previously unreachable by road. In 2023, she won the Rolex Enterprise Prize for developing AI-driven disease prediction models using satellite data. Motimath's TEDx talk "The truck that heals" inspired similar mobile clinics in Nepal and Bangladesh. Her upcoming book Mobile Medicine: Innovations from India's Margins (2024) details these breakthroughs.