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	'''Abhay Bang''' and '''Rani Bang''' are [[Indian people\|Indian]] social activists and researchers working in the field of [[community health]] in the [[Gadchiroli]] district of [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. They have revolutionized healthcare for the poorest people in India and have overseen a programme that has substantially reduced [[infant mortality]] rates in one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the world. The [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) and [[UNICEF]] have endorsed their approach to treating newborn babies and the programme is currently being rolled out across India and in parts of Africa.<ref name=RPI>http://www {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326070849/http://www/ \|date=26 March 2006 }}.Global development, Infant and child mortality, Elizabeth Day – The Observer, Sunday 20 March 2011 [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2011/mar/20/dr-abhay-bang-revolutionary-paediatrician Dr Abhay Bang: the revolutionary pediatrician] (Accessed on 28 November 2012)</ref> Abhay and Rani Bang founded the Society For Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)<ref>[http://www.searchgadchiroli.org/ Official website of SEARCH] (Archived on 7 November 2012)</ref> – a non-profit organisation, which is involved in rural health service and research. The couple is the winner of the [[Maharashtra Bhushan Award]].<ref>{{cite journal\|author1=Dr Abhay T Bang MD\|author2=Rani A Bang MD\|author3=Sanjay B Baitule DHMS\|author4=M Hanimi Reddy PhD\|author5=Mahesh D Deshmukh MSc\|title=Effect of home-based neonatal care and management of sepsis on neonatal mortality: field trial in rural India\|journal=The Lancet\|date=4 December 1999\|volume=354\|issue=9194\|pages=1955–1961\|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(99)03046-9/fulltext\|access-date=17 June 2014 \|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(99)03046-9\|pmid=10622298\|s2cid=27157242}}</ref> [[Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences]], Lucknow has conferred [[~~honourary~~ doctorate]]s on Abhay and Rani Bang.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://www.bhaskar.com/news/UP-LUCK-governor-ram-naik-join-convocation-of-sgpgi-in-lucknow-5125333-PHO.html?seq=1 \| title=Pgi ने मनाया 20वां दीक्षांत समारोह, वीमेन हेल्थ इश्यूज पर हुई चर्चा\| date=27 September 2015}}</ref> [[SNDT Women's University]], Mumbai has also awarded ''[[honoris causa]]'' to Rani Bang.<ref name=SNDT>SNDT Women's University [http://sndt.ac.in/convocation/dr-rani-bang.htm Convocation Rani Abhay Bang]</ref> ''The Lancet'' has honoured the couple as "the pioneers of health care in rural India".<ref name=Honor>{{Cite web \| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/The-Lancet-honour-for-Bang-couple/articleshow/7279436.cms \| title=The Lancet honour for Bang couple\|work=The Times of India}}</ref> Abhay and Rani Bang are the first recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of International Health at the [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]]. They were also inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. The Bangs are honoured for their leadership in community-based health care that is now helping to save the lives of millions of the most vulnerable newborns and children. During their careers, the Bangs have helped foster a renaissance in community-based primary health care.<ref name="jhsph.edu">{{Cite web \| url=http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/international-center-for-maternal-and-newborn-health/bangs.htm \| title=Alumni Award}}</ref> In 2016, [[Johns Hopkins University]] conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award upon them.<ref>Loksatta [http://www.loksatta.com/maharashtra-news/dr-rani-and-dr-abhay-bang-get-johns-hopkins-university-award-1222248/ डॉ. राणी व डॉ. अभय बंग यांना जॉन्स हॉपकिन्स विद्यापीठाचा पुरस्कार ] (Accessed on 3 April 2016)</ref>		'''Abhay Bang''' and '''Rani Bang''' are [[Indian people\|Indian]] social activists and researchers working in the field of [[community health]] in the [[Gadchiroli]] district of [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. They have revolutionized healthcare for the poorest people in India and have overseen a programme that has substantially reduced [[infant mortality]] rates in one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the world. The [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) and [[UNICEF]] have endorsed their approach to treating newborn babies and the programme is currently being rolled out across India and in parts of Africa.<ref name=RPI>http://www {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326070849/http://www/ \|date=26 March 2006 }}.Global development, Infant and child mortality, Elizabeth Day – The Observer, Sunday 20 March 2011 [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2011/mar/20/dr-abhay-bang-revolutionary-paediatrician Dr Abhay Bang: the revolutionary pediatrician] (Accessed on 28 November 2012)</ref> Abhay and Rani Bang founded the Society For Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)<ref>[http://www.searchgadchiroli.org/ Official website of SEARCH] (Archived on 7 November 2012)</ref> – a non-profit organisation, which is involved in rural health service and research. The couple is the winner of the [[Maharashtra Bhushan Award]].<ref>{{cite journal\|author1=Dr Abhay T Bang MD\|author2=Rani A Bang MD\|author3=Sanjay B Baitule DHMS\|author4=M Hanimi Reddy PhD\|author5=Mahesh D Deshmukh MSc\|title=Effect of home-based neonatal care and management of sepsis on neonatal mortality: field trial in rural India\|journal=The Lancet\|date=4 December 1999\|volume=354\|issue=9194\|pages=1955–1961\|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(99)03046-9/fulltext\|access-date=17 June 2014 \|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(99)03046-9\|pmid=10622298\|s2cid=27157242}}</ref> [[Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences]], Lucknow has conferred [[honorary doctorate]]s on Abhay and Rani Bang.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://www.bhaskar.com/news/UP-LUCK-governor-ram-naik-join-convocation-of-sgpgi-in-lucknow-5125333-PHO.html?seq=1 \| title=Pgi ने मनाया 20वां दीक्षांत समारोह, वीमेन हेल्थ इश्यूज पर हुई चर्चा\| date=27 September 2015}}</ref> [[SNDT Women's University]], Mumbai has also awarded ''[[honoris causa]]'' to Rani Bang.<ref name=SNDT>SNDT Women's University [http://sndt.ac.in/convocation/dr-rani-bang.htm Convocation Rani Abhay Bang]</ref> ''The Lancet'' has honoured the couple as "the pioneers of health care in rural India".<ref name=Honor>{{Cite web \| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/The-Lancet-honour-for-Bang-couple/articleshow/7279436.cms \| title=The Lancet honour for Bang couple\|work=The Times of India}}</ref> Abhay and Rani Bang are the first recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of International Health at the [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]]. They were also inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. The Bangs are honoured for their leadership in community-based health care that is now helping to save the lives of millions of the most vulnerable newborns and children. During their careers, the Bangs have helped foster a renaissance in community-based primary health care.<ref name="jhsph.edu">{{Cite web \| url=http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/international-center-for-maternal-and-newborn-health/bangs.htm \| title=Alumni Award}}</ref> In 2016, [[Johns Hopkins University]] conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award upon them.<ref>Loksatta [http://www.loksatta.com/maharashtra-news/dr-rani-and-dr-abhay-bang-get-johns-hopkins-university-award-1222248/ डॉ. राणी व डॉ. अभय बंग यांना जॉन्स हॉपकिन्स विद्यापीठाचा पुरस्कार ] (Accessed on 3 April 2016)</ref>

	== Personal life and background ==		== Personal life and background ==
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	== Education ==		== Education ==
	Abhay and Rani Bang completed their [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery\|MBBS]] from Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1972. Abhay Bang was first in the university in MBBS and had three gold medals. Abhay Bang did his MD (with a first position in the university) while Rani Bang did her MD in obstetrics and gynaecology (with a first position in the university and gold medal). They helped organise and lead a national group of medical professionals concerned with health-care quality and delivery.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://singapore.ashoka.org/fellow/abhay-bang \| title=Ashoka \| Everyone a changemaker}}</ref> After their medical studies, the couple moved to Wardha and co-founded Chetna Vikas – a non-profit organization. While working in villages of Wardha district, Abhay Bang published a study challenging the minimum wages fixed for agriculture labour in Maharashtra, forcing the government to raise the minimum wages.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://healthmarketinnovations.org/blog/search-experience \| title=The SEARCH experience \| the Center for Health Market Innovations}}</ref> This strengthened their belief in the power of research as a way of solving social problems. They realized the need for further studies in public health to address larger health-care issues. Both of them completed Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, America, in 1984. The couple had decided to follow Gandhian principles and to work with the poor and thus immediately returned to India after finishing their masters.<ref name="TL">Alex Perry (31 October 2005). [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124299,00.html "The Listeners"]. ''[[Time (magazine)\|Time]]''. (Accessed on 11 November 2012)</ref>		Abhay and Rani Bang completed their [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery\|MBBS]] from Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1972. Abhay Bang was first in the university in MBBS and had three gold medals. Abhay Bang did his MD (with a first position in the university) while Rani Bang did her MD in obstetrics and gynaecology (with a first position in the university and gold medal). They helped organise and lead a national group of medical professionals concerned with health-care quality and delivery.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://singapore.ashoka.org/fellow/abhay-bang \| title=Ashoka \| Everyone a changemaker}}</ref> After their medical studies, the couple moved to Wardha and co-founded Chetna Vikas – a non-profit organization. While working in villages of Wardha district, Abhay Bang published a study challenging the minimum wages fixed for agriculture labour in Maharashtra, forcing the government to raise the minimum wages.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://healthmarketinnovations.org/blog/search-experience \| title=The SEARCH experience \| the Center for Health Market Innovations}}</ref> This strengthened their belief in the power of research as a way of solving social problems. They realized the need for further studies in public health to address larger health-care issues. Both of them completed Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, America, in 1984. The couple had decided to follow Gandhian principles and to work with the poor and thus immediately returned to India after finishing their masters.<ref name="TL">Alex Perry (31 October 2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20051101144906/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124299,00.html "The Listeners"]. ''[[Time (magazine)\|Time]]''. (Accessed on 11 November 2012)</ref>

	== Work ==		== Work ==
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	Two of his articles "My Magical School"<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/magical_school.htm\|title=My Magical School : Articles - On and By Gandhi\|website=www.mkgandhi.org\|language=en\|access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref> and "Sevagram to Shodhgram"<ref>[http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/sevagramtoshodgram.pdf Sevagram to Shodhgram]</ref> have been translated in English by Arvind Gupta.		Two of his articles "My Magical School"<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/magical_school.htm\|title=My Magical School : Articles - On and By Gandhi\|website=www.mkgandhi.org\|language=en\|access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref> and "Sevagram to Shodhgram"<ref>[http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/sevagramtoshodgram.pdf Sevagram to Shodhgram]</ref> have been translated in English by Arvind Gupta.
	He has written an open letter to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, [[Devendra Fadnavis]], urging him to act on balanced development of Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra and to take steps to reduce liquor consumption in the state.<ref>A Postcard from Dr Abhay Bang [http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/a-postcardvidarbha-marathwada-deserve-your-maximum-attention/] Accessed on 6 January 2016</ref>		He has written an open letter to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, [[Devendra Fadnavis]], urging him to act on balanced development of Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra and to take steps to reduce liquor consumption in the state.<ref>A Postcard from Dr Abhay Bang [http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/a-postcardvidarbha-marathwada-deserve-your-maximum-attention/] Accessed on 6 January 2016</ref>

			'''Tamil Book'''

			* என் மாயாஜாலப் பள்ளி (தன்னறம் வெளியீடு) - Tamil translation of My Magic school

	==Awards and honours==		==Awards and honours==
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	[[Category:Recipients of the Maharashtra Bhushan Award]]		[[Category:Recipients of the Maharashtra Bhushan Award]]
	[[Category:Living people]]		[[Category:Living people]]
	~~[[Category:Indian women social workers]]~~
	[[Category:Indian health activists]]		[[Category:Indian health activists]]
	[[Category:20th-century Indian medical doctors]]		[[Category:20th-century Indian medical doctors]]
	[[Category:MacArthur Fellows]]		[[Category:MacArthur Fellows]]
	[[Category:Medical doctors from Maharashtra]]		[[Category:Medical doctors from Maharashtra]]
	[[Category:~~Indian male social~~ workers]]		[[Category:Social workers]]
	[[Category:Women scientists from Maharashtra]]		[[Category:Women scientists from Maharashtra]]
	[[Category:Social workers from Maharashtra]]		[[Category:Social workers from Maharashtra]]
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	[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]		[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]
	[[Category:20th-century Indian women scientists]]		[[Category:20th-century Indian women scientists]]
	~~[[Category:20th-century Indian scientists]]~~
	[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine]]		[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine]]
	[[Category:Women educators from Maharashtra]]		[[Category:Women educators from Maharashtra]]

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