The Health Gap Nobody Talks About with Vasanta Pundarika

Women live longer than men but they spend 25% more of their lives in poor health.This realization made Vasanta launch a movement.In this episode of Leaders Creating Rukus we welcome Vasanta Pundarika, CEO & Founder of Lotuspring. She is one of healthcare's most distinctive voices working at the messy intersection of women's health, behavioral health, and business strategy.With nearly two decades as a healthcare investment banker, advising on deals from startups to multi-billion-dollar companies, Vasanta had a front-row seat to exactly where the system was failing women. So, she left banking to fix it.On this episode we’ll talk about: The decades of underfunding and underdiagnosing in women’s health South Asian behavioral health stigma Bridging the gap between an uncompromising clinical mission and sustainable business growth.Vasanta is a board member, keynote speaker, Princeton alumna, and the kind of leader who does not observe from a distance but positions herself at the center of the work where the hardest problems actually live.