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Health Provider Network

Sakhi’s Women’s Health Initiative was developed in 1999 as an outreach, education, and prevention program. WHI responds to the growing need for culturally-competent and sensitive health care services for South Asian women facing intimate partner violence and abuse in their lives.

Within the WHI, Sakhi has developed the Health Provider Network (HPN) to directly address survivors’ physical and mental health needs. Survivors of domestic violence face many obstacles to seeking health care, including language barriers, high costs, spousal control, and fear of being exposed.

Physicians in the HPN show their dedication by working to remove these barriers and equalizing access to healthcare which is otherwise unavailable to many abused South Asian women.

If you would like to become a member of this network, please click here to download the HPN Application Form. (You will need a PDF Reader to view this page. To download Adobe Reader for free, please click here.)

Fill out the form completely and send it back to:

Sandeep Bathala
Direct Services Director
Sakhi for South Asian Women
P.O. Box 20208
Greeley Square Station
New York, NY 10001

If you are interested in learning more about the HPN, please contact Reema Kalra, WHI Coordinator, at 212.714.9153 x104 or sandeep.bathala@sakhi.org.