Learn more about Ms. Bhandarkar below:
Kalpana Bhandarkar has nearly 20 years of experience in health care and civic engagement. Within health care, Kalpana has dedicated her professional career to improving access to quality health care for people living in low-resource settings, having held leadership positions at three New York City hospitals (NYC Health + Hospitals, Maimonides Medical Center and Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center) and having worked in health care consulting with safety net hospital clients. She has also long been engaged in advancing child and adolescent advocacy initiatives statewide and nationally. Currently, she owns and operates Spring Bhee Advisory focused on advisory services and leadership coaching for health care and non-profit organizations.
Kalpana is an active Board member of three non-profit organizations: ERASE Racism, a civil rights organization focused on fair housing and educational equity; Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, a statewide child advocacy organization working to advance policies for children and families in low-resource settings; and She Is the Universe, a global leadership development organization for girls. Kalpana also has a long history of participating in voter registration, voter outreach and canvassing related to local, state and presidential elections.
She was a founding Board member of SAPHA, assisted with the organization's incorporation, initial fundraising, and Board development, and co-authored the Youth Health chapter of the Brown Paper: A Health of South Asians in the United States. She served on the SAPHA Board from its incorporation in 2002 until 2004.
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