ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT BRINDA A, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" I want to step away from the routine monotony of medical school and connect my learning with real world change. The Millennium Fellowship excites me because it gives me a chance to go beyond textbooks, learn through teamwork, and work with people who share the same vision of making healthcare accessible. For me, medicine is not only about studying but about serving making healthcare a right for everyone, not just a privileged for som "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Healthcare : one call away
Healthcare: One Call Away is a simple but impactful system we set up to help a rural village access basic and specialist medical advice quickly. We connected the village head and the primary health care worker with professors and doctors from our medical college, creating a direct communication chain.
We visited the village, explained the system to the people, and showed them how they could reach a specialist doctor through a single call or message made by the village head or PHC worker. This made it easier for villagers especially those without phones or medical awareness to get guidance for fevers, pregnancy concerns, infections, chronic illness, and emergencies.
Through this project, we improved how fast villagers sought help, strengthened trust in the healthcare system, and made specialist advice accessible from anywhere, anytime,literally just one call away.
About the Millennium Fellow
Brinda A is an inquisitive and determined medical student from Bangalore, India. Since second grade, she has been passionate about science, often spending her free time solving math and physics problems, which shaped her dream of becoming a doctor. She also enjoyed practicing classical dance, which gave her creativity and balance outside academics. Brinda is down-to-earth but also competitive when it comes to her goals. She shares a close bond with her younger sister, and this has made her more caring and responsible. Inspired by this, she aspires to make health care accessible to everyone, because she believes it is a right.
