Mirai Chatterjee
Mirai Chatterjee is an Indian social worker who leads the Self-Employed Women's Association, SEWA. She joined SEWA in 1984 and was its General Secretary after its Founder, Ela Bhatt.
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Mirai Chatterjee is the Director of the Social Security Team at SEWA. She is responsible for SEWA’s Health Care, Child Care and Insurance programmes. She is currently Chairperson of the National Insurance VimoSEWA Cooperative Ltd and actively involved with the Lok Swasthya Health Cooperative, of which she is a founder. Both cooperatives are promoted by SEWA. In addition, she is Chairperson of the Gujarat State Women’s SEWA Cooperative Federation of 106 primary cooperatives with 3 lakh members.
She was also appointed a member of National Advisory Council in June, 2010.[1][2]
Ms. Chatterjee has served on the Boards of several organizations in India, including the Friends of Women's World Banking (FWWB), and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). She was advisor to the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector and is in the Advisory Group of the National Rural Health Mission. She was also a Commissioner in the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.[3]
Chatterjee has a B.A. from Harvard University in History and Science and a Masters from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Works
- Impact of Implementing the CDS through Sangini Childcare and Workers’ Co-operative, by Renana Jhabvala, Mirai Chatterjee and Mita Parikh, 1996.
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