Ritu Narayan

Indian health tech innovator creating scalable solutions to combat non-communicable diseases through digital platforms

Ritu Narayan is a Mumbai-based physician and entrepreneur whose digital health solutions have transformed diabetes and heart disease management in India. Trained at AIIMS Delhi and Harvard Medical School, she identified gaps in chronic disease care during her decade as a practicing endocrinologist. In 2007, she co-founded Arogya World, a nonprofit using technology to deliver preventive healthcare at scale.

Her flagship app MyLifeCheck provides personalized health assessments and interventions for 5+ million users, while the Arogya Circle platform connects 10,000+ rural health workers with AI-driven diagnostic tools. In 2014, she launched the world's first corporate wellness program for diabetes prevention in partnership with Microsoft and IBM, reducing healthcare costs by 30% for participating companies.

Ritu pioneered Digital Health India, a consortium of 200+ organizations using IoT devices and telemedicine to reach remote areas. Her work was featured in the World Economic Forum's 2020 report on pandemic-era healthcare innovation. The WHO adopted her diabetes prevention toolkit for South Asia in 2021. Ritu's TED Talk "How to fight the global disease epidemic" highlights her vision for a preventive healthcare system. Her latest venture, HealTech Labs, develops wearable devices for early disease detection, recently securing $15M in Series B funding.