Namrata Bagaria, MBBS, MPH Secretary

Dr. Namrata Bagaria is a Physician with a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University. She is also a PhD Candidate in Digital Transformation and Innovation at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on finding digital incentives to help people achieve their long term exercise goals.  

Dr. Bagaria hosts a Health 4.0 Leadership podcast where she engages in conversation with leaders from various backgrounds on motivations and challenges in shifting from mass and reactive healthcare to personalized and proactive healthcare. 

Namology is a life coaching organization Dr. Bagaria founded to motivate people and help them find joy and meaning in their daily lives. Their community initiatives include "Motivational Mondays" and "Soulful Saturdays". Public Health Justice is a Mumbai based non-profit organization Dr. Bagaria established in 2012. Since inception, she has led the team in India to support underserved communities with foci on child development, health and sanitation through "Step 1 Balwadi" preschool. Dr. Bagaria has served as a past board member of the Ontario Public Health Association.

In her spare time, Dr. Bagaria writes soulful poetry as part of a collection called Millenial Rumi. Her most recent poetry came as a response to the social anxiety caused by the COVID 19 pandemic with goals to help others find hope in times of crisis.