Vineeta Rastogi

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Vineeta Rastogi (August 4, 1968, in Silver Spring, Maryland – December 6, 1995) was an American AIDS activist, public health worker and Peace Corps Volunteer in Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{cite news|last1=McCarthy|first1=Colman|title=SHE KNEW WHAT WAS OWED|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/12/16/she-knew-what-was-owed/4c479b6d-c27b-4d0d-9254-28735b7ef16e/|accessdate=22 October 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|date=16 December 1995}}{{cite web|title=Vineeta Rastogi in Social Security Death Index - Fold3|url=https://www.fold3.com/record/22549376-vineeta-rastogi|website=Fold3|accessdate=22 October 2017}}

She attended University of Maryland, Harvard School of Public Health and had been accepted at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for a Ph.D. when she was diagnosed with cancer. When the disease was terminal she started the Vineeta Foundation to continue her life's work.

She was a delegate to Cairo's International Conference on Population and Development, Yokohama's International AIDS Conference and Asian-American Conference at White House. She was co-chair of the "Violence and Human Rights" Conference and a founding member of Young Indian-American Forum. In 1993, she was an Albert Schweitzer Urban Fellow and Award-winner (for outstanding Public Health student).{{cite news |last1=Tong |first1=Betsy Q.M. |title=Schweitzer fellows key on health-care access |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-schweitzer-fellows-key/173668313/ |access-date=2 June 2025 |work=The Boston Globe |date=April 18, 1993 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=32}}