Ritu Ghosh, Prosthetist and Orthotist, holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in Health Care Services. She is the Academics and Technical Director of Mobility India (MI), Bengaluru. Ritu has over 28 years of experience in the field of rehabilitation and assistive technology from ground to policy level.
She has established national and international MI projects related to training and rehab services in over 20 countries. In 2005, she integrated wheelchair services into Mobility India’s P&O services and community-based rehabilitation programmes. She introduced curriculum on wheelchairs into MI’s ISPO-accredited P&O training programmes in 2006 and incorporated it into the Rehabilitation Council of India’s national P&O curriculum in 2010.
Ritu established the Bachelor’s (ISPO accredited) and Master’s degree P&O programmes at Mobility India and is currently advocating for the creation of India’s first PhD programme in P&O. She is also on the Academic Council of the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD). She has been on the Board of Studies for Allied Health Sciences in the State’s University of Health Sciences, and a P&O Expert Committee of the Rehabilitation Council of India for over two decades.
Ritu served as a board member of the International Society of Wheelchair Professionals. Ritu supported the piloting of the WHO Training in Assistive Products (TAP) learning resource in India in 2018 and is actively involved in its implementation in the region. She has spearheaded collaboration with leading research institutes in India and internationally on innovative assistive technology initiatives and advancing the field globally.
