DR. ANGELI QWATRA
Safety & Rescue Management Expert and Founder Chairperson

"Our aim is to train atleast one person per household.."

Dr. Qwatra is a medical rescue management expert having national and international experience in the field of providing emergency aid measures.

As Chairperson Philanthrope (an NGO registered in New Delhi under section 80-G of the Income Tax Act) she is involved in a mega project aimed at providing training on emergency aid measures to the masses. She has been trained in this field both in India and abroad from the Safety First Institute, UK. She has worked with the Royal British Army Field Hospital to get practical experience in rescue management. She is trained in Disaster Management from World Bank Institute – National Institute of Disaster Management.

Dr. Qwatra is a member of task force of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and has been a member of the Medical and Health Services Committee for Commonwealth Games 2010.

She is involved in long-term intensive anthropological research on "Safety Preparedness and Emergency Management at the grass root level."

Her mission is to "TRAIN AT LEAST ONE PERSON PER HOUSEOLD IN INDIA" on Safety preparedness.

She is a Medical Anthropologist and holds M.Phil. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Delhi with doctoral research on 'Health and caring of aged women' - a pioneering work in its field.

She has to her credit various awards during her education from Army Public School, Delhi, Miranda House and Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi. These include UGC Research Fellowship, All India Post Graduate scholarship and Miss Science Master Award.

She has been a lecturer of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, Lady Irwin College and Institute of Home Economics, Delhi. Her subject of specialisation has been Human Development in diverse settings – urban, rural and tribal society. She has taken lead initiative as a part of various seminar committees in UNESCO, UNAIDS and University of Delhi on issues related to Health education and awareness, tribal health, human development, aged women and HIV/AIDS.

An active member in implementing UNESCO projects on AIDS awareness in association with NACO, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, she was involved in a pioneering initiative relating to vulnerability of children in HIV/AIDS affected families.

She has taken a lead initiative in socio-environmental development of urban villages in Delhi while working with NGO Vatavaran where she was involved in health awareness and welfare projects besides other development measures.

She has done a long term project "Biological, Psychological and Social Problems of the Aged in Delhi" suggesting recommendations for Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India.

As the Chairperson of Institute of Technology Dissemination and Environmental and Social Development, she has worked in association with Mewat Development Agency, Govt. of Haryana for the Health education and empowerment of women in the backward and under developed Mewat region of Haryana.

She has been involved in with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Govt. of India and various health welfare projects for orphan and street children, destitute women, lepers, visually impaired, physically challenged and other underprivileged sections of the society.

She has been on the editorial board of the journal "Indian Anthropologist" since 1996. She has to her credit publications in UNESCO report on HIV/AIDS, ‘Nagas at work’ in the Indian Anthropologist.

She also has to her credit research on ‘Tribal Naga Students in Delhi’ ‘Gadulia Lohars’, ‘Economic role of women in Pauri Garwal’, ‘Chipko Movement’. and ‘Values, Options and Constraints of Educated Urban Women’.

She is Hony. Secretary of the Association of British Scholars, member of the special Committee on Delhi-NCR of PHD Chambers of Commerce, life member of Indian Red Cross Society, St. John Ambulance, Indian Science Congress Association, Executive committee member of Indian Anthropological Association, Life member of Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society-an international body of Anthropologists and Sociologists.

With her rich and varied national/ international experience, specially in areas of health care and rescue management, and her association with prestigious UNESCO, UNAIDS and Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Justice and Welfare Govt. of India projects, she is contributing effectively and meaningfully towards the much needed improvement in the prevalent medical rescue system by equipping people with knowledge for safety management, disaster mitigation, injury prevention and self help in times of medical emergency.