GLOBAL WOMEN ASIA GROUNDBREAKERS AWARD

Founder of United Family Healthcare (UFH), Roberta Lipson is an esteemed 40-year pioneer in China's healthcare industry. She co-founded Chindex in 1981, transforming it from a medical equipment distributor into China’s first and largest foreign-invested healthcare system. She successfully took her company public twice and currently serves as Vice Chair of New Frontier Health, while also being an influential leader in U.S.-China business relations through organizations like the AmCham China and the U.S.-China Business Council. Beyond her corporate work, Roberta also founded the United Foundation for China’s Health, a not-for-profit dedicated to providing life-saving interventions and health management to underserved populations in China.

The American India Foundation's Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI) is a public-private health intervention designed to significantly reduce maternal, neonatal, and child mortality in rural and impoverished communities across India. It operates by empowering local frontline health workers with training, resources, and continuous support in providing effective, low-cost, home-based care for pregnant and nursing women, newborns, and children under five. To date, MANSI has directly served over 500,000 pregnant women, aided over 300,000 children and newborns, and empowered over 250,000 adolescent girls with health, education, and life skills.

Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines. Together with our partners, we aim to improve the patient experience and advance a new frontier of treatment options through our dynamic and diverse pipeline. As a leading values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, we are guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet. Our employees in approximately 80 countries and regions are driven by our purpose and are grounded in the values that have defined us for more than two centuries.