Kamal Narayan Omer is a health enthusiast, communication expert, entrepreneur and columnist, he is the Founder & CEO, Integrated Health and Wellbeing (IHW) Council, India’s premier institution for holistic health awareness, advocacy and behaviour change. He brings together approximately two decades of professional experience of working as a journalist and a health communicator with leading English newspapers like Hindustan Times and major wire agencies like United News of India (UNI) and Press Trust of India (PTI).
During his stint as a reporter, Kamal became deeply interested in the large and rapidly evolving field of communication and thus his entrepreneurial venture on health focused communication, Teamwork Communications Group was born in 2009. In 2014, Kamal founded IHW Council, a not-for-profit social impact initiative, to address the dismal reach of healthcare among Indians and to advocate for better health and environment. Under his able leadership IHW Council has emerged as India’s foremost institution for health and wellbeing advocacy with a widespread global community of health fraternity as well as policy makers who engage with the council through its several ongoing projects, conferences, seminars, summits, and awards initiatives.
IHW Councils’ health initiatives have carved a niche by working aggressively towards finding sustainable, affordable, and effective healthcare solutions through both dialogue and on-ground activities. Kamal is actively engaged with several mid- to large-scale organizations from industries such as healthcare, wellness, pharmaceutical, food & beverages and agriculture, research institutes among several others. Under his active leadership and passionate focus on good health for all, IHW Council has built some of the most prestigious forums for encouraging holistic health discourse and recognizing those making exemplary contribution towards this. The major forums are the India Health & Wellness Summit and Awards; CSR Health Impact Awards; CME Excellence Movement; Ayushman Bharat Conclave, Jal Shakti Conclave and The Good Air Movement & Summit. Under the aegis of the IHW Council, Kamal has also launched the RAPID Global Cancer Alliance for better and affordable cancer care and the SHE Alliance with a focus on spirituality for health and environment.
Kamal is also widely published as an opinion maker in the Indian media and his opinion pieces on critical health issues, environment and traditional wellness practises are featured regularly in newspapers like The Economic Times, The Financial Express, and YourStory. His quotes and insights related to public health policy regulations and wellbeing are also included in mainstream media discourse on the issue.
Kamal was recently awarded the FOGSI Achiever Award by The Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India, for his dedicated efforts around critical issues of women health. He has also been conferred the Vishwa Guru Ambassador Award for leading health and environment advocacy by the Union Minister of State for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.