Dr. Glory Alexander, alumnus of the MBBS batch of
1970 has been awarded the prestigious Dr. B. C. Roy
award in recognition of her outstanding service in the field of ‘Socio-Medical Relief’.
Dr. Glory obtained both her graduate and post-graduate degrees from CMC
Vellore, finishing M.B.B.S. in 1976 and M.D. in 1986. She was awarded the Madras University Gold Medal for her performance in the MD in General Medicine. She
worked at Bangalore Baptist Hospital until 1998, when she left to start a HIV/AIDS-focused NGO, ASHA Foundation. Over the last 18 years, ASHA Foundation has impacted the lives of tens of thousands of people through its
services: an AIDS helpline, adolescent health education in schools and for out of
school youth, an integrated counselling and testing centre, medical care and support, educational, nutritional, and medical support for children, the empowerment of women, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
a psychosocial intervention for children living with HIV through residential summer camps, capacity-building of professionals, and HIV/AIDS research.
The award will be presented by the President of India, Shri. Pranab Mukherjee, in New Delhi later this year.
On behalf of all the Alumni of CMC Vellore, we congratulate Dr. Glory Alexander
for this honour and pray that God will continue to bless many more lives through her service.