Suresh Babu Munuswamy

Dr Suresh Munuswamy is a medical doctor, scientist and a start-up entrepreneur. He studied M.B.B.S in Chennai, M.P.H in Oxford and PhD in Tokyo. He was the first Indian to be selected for the Public Health Leadership Doctorate Program fully sponsoed by the Government of Japan. Presently he is the Deputy Director and Additional Professor

at Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) for Technology Innovations; Director at Hi Rapid Lab –PHFI’s first faculty led start-up company; and the coordinator for India’s first integrated MSc and PhD Health Informatics program at IIPH- Hyderabad. Previously he was part of the team that started India’s first School of Public Health in a private university at SRM near Chennai.

He has 6 years of clinical experience, 7 years of public health experience and over 10 years of experience in design, development of comprehensive software, hardware and mobility platforms for delivering universal primary health care screening and treatment at home. The platform developed by Dr.Suresh, integrates several design and technology approaches, including graphic icons and AR for UI, wide spectrum images (within and beyond visual) for automated feature identification, iterative looped logic and artificial intelligence for decision making, custom configured ground (two and four wheeler) and unmanned aerial vehicles/ drones for product supply chain. He has about 10 design and process patents to his credit. Several components of the platform, are currently being field tested in several locations for several applications. For the idea of home based primary health care to be sustainable and become part of the health system, he is continuously working on creating an innovation led service ecosystem bringing together public health experts, technologists (software, hardware, automobile, aerospace), designers, donors, regulators, bureaucrats, field managers, students of various back grounds and grassroot level service providers with the purpose of providing primary health care at home. Further information about his work is available on www.hirapidlab.com or you can simply search his name on google.