About Us

Initiate and lead community support initiatives in partnership to make a difference in knowledge enhancement for frontline professionals.

Initiate

Initiate community support events and projects to enhance community safety. 

Lead

Build community wide leadership capabilities to train and develop community safety projects.  

Support

Support and grow community initiatives with partnerships and collaboration.

isawRISK App

isawRISK is a quick online self-assessment tool that helps users get a sense of their risk level related to intimate partner violence and abuse. Available in many different languages, it provides information about local support services that could assist someone with their next steps.

www.isawrisk.com

Advisory Board

Simranjit Singh

Chief Executive Officer, Guardant Health AMEA

Advisor, isawSAFETY Inc.

Simranjit is the advisor to the isawSAFETY Inc. management team. He is the CEO of Guardant Health AMEA (GH AMEA), a joint venture between Guardant Health, Inc. and SoftBank. He has more than 15 years of senior management experience in Asia Pacific working with biopharma, diagnostics and medical device companies. He leads GH AMEA which is a global leader in precision oncology. GH AMEA’s comprehensive genomic profiling (liquid biopsy) tests are available in over 30 different markets across Asia, Middle East and Africa and it has two regional offices in Singapore and Tokyo.

Prior to Guardant Health, Simranjit was the Vice President of the Medical Devices and Diagnostics Division at IQVIA where he delivered exponential revenue growth by driving business transformation and growing the clinical research, consulting and regulatory business to advance market share in Asia Pacific.  Simran holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

 

Management Team

Dr Harjit Kaur

PhD, MA (Psychology)

CEO & Co-Founder, isawSAFETY Inc.

Harjit Kaur has worked in the anti-violence sector for over 20 years supporting women with lived experience at a variety of violence prevention organizations in British Columbia, Canada. In addition to her grassroots experience providing front-line services to survivors of violence, her distinguished background includes research, project management, training, coordination and collaboration, national and international consultation and policy development.

She has a PhD, an MA in Counselling Psychology and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Her work experience in the anti-violence sector includes providing counselling, crisis support, leadership in program and project management and intersectoral coordination.

Fluent in English, Punjabi and Malay, Harjit’s awareness about the crucial need for immigrant women impacted by violence to be able to access resources and services in their own language led her to co-create the isawRISK self-assessment tool.

Manjeet Singh Usma

PhD(c), MSc. Research (IT), BEng.(Mechanical)

CTO & Co-Founder, isawSAFETY Inc.

Manjeet manages isawSAFETY’s innovative technology platform and software application services which enable easy and quick access to much needed services for vulnerable individuals. He is an academic researcher with interests in applying user-centred analytics in the design and development of innovative technology-intensive applications, to enhance user engagements and usability.

Manjeet has been involved in the development of applications focused on helping survivors of domestic violence to be better informed and easily get help online. He has presented at the “Stop Domestic Violence” conferences and workshops in Australia, sharing his research in designing and developing effective online help-seeking applications using new emerging technologies (VR/AR/MR).

Manjeet has more than 25 years’ experiences in areas of new and emerging technologies and has fluency in six Asian languages. His credentials include a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering (B.Eng) degree from the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) with specialisation in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Factors (HF) Engineering. He has a M.Sc. Research (IT) degree from Deakin University (Australia) and is currently pursing his PhD in Augmented Reality & Data Analytics.

isawSAFETY Inc. 

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Incorporated in British Columbia, Canada.

Vision

Creating and sustaining healthy and safe communities.

Mission

Engage technologies to improve accessibility and availability of information and resources to improve the wellness of families and communities.