Why the foundation exists.

Axis Global Foundation is an Indian non-profit, founded in 2018 and run by two co-trustees. It exists because the students India most needs in medicine are so often the ones who cannot pay to become doctors.

Our mission

Unchanged since 2018.

Make quality medical education accessible to every deserving student, regardless of financial or systemic barriers.

0.93

doctors for every 1,000 people in India

8,000+

potential doctors supported since 2018

The shortage is not abstract.

At just 0.93 doctors per 1,000 people, India remains one of the most doctor-deficient nations in the world. For decades, medical education here has stayed expensive, limited in seats, and out of reach for thousands of capable students.

Axis was founded in 2018 to change that. Since then the foundation has supported more than 8,000 potential doctors, each one a step toward closing India’s healthcare gap.

The two co-trustees.

Satwik Rajput

Co-trustee

6+ years across consulting, venture capital and healthcare

Satwik currently leads innovation strategy for one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. For years he built a career solving hard problems inside some of the world's largest organisations: untangling complexity, fixing what wasn't working, and turning good ideas into things that actually happened at scale.

The work that stayed with him was the question of who gets left out of a system, and why it does not have to stay that way. India has too few doctors and too many students who could have been one, if only the door had been open. Satwik started Axis Global Foundation to be that door.

Today, every student Axis helps reach a medical degree is proof of what is possible when opportunity is rebuilt from the ground up, one seat at a time.

Poonam Singh

Co-trustee

8 years building the ecosystem Axis students live and learn within

Poonam has spent the past eight years building, from the ground up, the ecosystem that Axis students live and learn within. Her work centres on the day-to-day realities of student life: housing, nutrition, safety and wellbeing, alongside sustained advocacy for student rights at the institutional and governmental level.

She has worked closely with government officials to shape policy that protects and empowers students studying abroad, and has been instrumental in establishing the hostels, mess facilities and support systems that allow thousands of students to thrive far from home. Her focus has never been limited to access alone, but to ensuring that once a student arrives, they are genuinely cared for.

Her conviction is simple: expanding access to medical education is only meaningful if the students who gain that access are supported every step of the way.

What they built together.

Satwik and Poonam have travelled extensively across India, from metro cities to smaller towns, to raise awareness about the opportunities in international medical education, so that families across the country, regardless of geography, understand the pathways available to them.

In parallel, they have worked directly with partner universities abroad to build the infrastructure required to host and support Indian students: housing, academic support systems and cultural integration frameworks, from the ground up, often at institutions unfamiliar with Indian students altogether.

This dual approach, building awareness in India and building readiness abroad, is what lets Axis scale access to medical education sustainably.

A speaker with a microphone addressing a full hall of seated students at a roadshow session — Addressing a full hall at a session.

Students and parents seated together in a room, listening to a session — Families listening together at a session.

Write to the trustees.

The foundation is small by design, and the trustees read everything that comes in. Universities, donors and families all reach them at the same address.