Ravikumar Manoharan was a site fellow at Tribal Health Initiative in India (2017-2019). He is a rural surgeon working with Tribal Health Initiative in a remote forested valley in South India. After his medical graduation, his life changed while working with this unique community health program. With a commitment to work on tribal health issues, he went on to study Public Health in London. He then worked with another tribal community in central India where malaria and tuberculosis were rampant. He has finished the rural surgery training program and has ever since returned to Sittilingi to manage a 30-bed tribal hospital and train young doctors willing to work in rural areas.

Field of work: Surgery, Public Health

Areas of interest: Rural health, farming