Dr Navneet Bhullar, MD

APAAR Founder

Navneet Bhullar is a US-trained global health doctor who practised hospital medicine in the United States for 21 years until she turned to social justice work in medicine and beyond. She has led and participated in medical projects with MSF in five countries including inside Sierra Leone during the deadly 2014 Ebola epidemic. Navneet has also co-founded AGAPP in Jalandhar, India ( Action Group Against Plastic Pollution). Dr Bhullar serves on the Board of Advisors for Creshendo, a US- based international nonprofit which equips displaced populations to lead, heal, and shape the systems around them. She is a writer and poet who has been published extensively in literary journals. Her essay on her brother Triman Singh, the inspiration behind APAAR's launch, is linked below. She urges all to read the BLOGS on this APAAR website "because, through stories of the oppressed, transformation happens."

https://wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2/essays/bhullar/

Pooja Arora

Member, APAAR Advisory Committee

Taranjit Kaur

Member, APAAR Advisory Committee

Taranjit Kaur is a Rotary award-winning entrepreneur who founded Rana Cooking School which trains chefs in several cities in Punjab. Her brother Rana has been an APAARite since the start. Taranjit loves cooking and gardening. She, with her wise mother Amarjeet Kaur, has rallied numerous relatives to fund APAAR's cause. 

Harvinder Kaur

Member, APAAR Advisory Committee

is an educator and social leader with over 35 years of experience in teaching and academic leadership. She holds a Master’s degree in Punjabi, along with an M.Phil and B.Ed. She has served as an Associate Professor for 11 years and spent 9 years teaching at Dayanand Model School. For the past 14 years, she has been leading Nirmaan School for Holistic Education as Principal and Administrator. She is President of PAHAL, an NGO working on holistic social development. She's a regular blood donor, and motivator. she has donated blood 64 times and is a state awardee for her contribution.