Manish Bhardwaj

Activist, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Engineer, Inventor, Parent, Social entrepreneur, Technologist

Manish is the co-founder and CEO of Innovators In Health (IIH), a non-profit committed to ensuring high quality healthcare for the rural poor in India. He is also the founding director of an initiative at Princeton University's Keller Center to enable faculty to directly engage with our most pressing societal challenges. Over the past decade, IIH has served close to 100,000 patients in tuberculosis, maternal and neonatal health, and maternal mental health. IIH is the bellwether for policy shifts towards more humane healthcare: delivering care to the patient’s doorstep, providing nutrition, advocating for fair pay for female community health workers, and ensuring high standards of care. Drawing inspiration from the late Paul Farmer, IIH works through accompaniment: journeying with the wronged – as equals – until right is done. Manish believes that enduring justice requires framing issues in moral terms, and using the vocabulary of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Science, technology, engineering, innovation and design are powerful instruments, but they don’t tell us what the world ought to be, what the nature of injustice is, and how to wield these instruments in the pursuit of a better world. These are concerns of moral clarity. Manish was the James Wei Visiting Professor at Princeton University. He teaches moral clarity, idealism and the nature of justice and injustice. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT. He is a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.

Making the world more just.

Let's make moral clarity foundational to education.

Global health, Idealism, Social entrepreneurship