Buy Tickets Now: Hopkins India Conference 2026

Date: Apr.1 & 2, 2026

Location: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001

Registration is now open for the second annual Hopkins India Conference. Early Bird Ticket Sale closes on Jan. 31, 2026, so get them before they’re gone!

This year’s theme, Ideas, Innovation and Impact for a Shared Future, focuses on bold thinking and collaborative action across technology, health, education, and the global economy. The program convenes leading policymakers, scholars, and corporate innovators from the U.S. and India to examine emerging opportunities, strengthen partnerships, and advance solutions that shape the future.

TOP ARTICLES OF 2025

GKII–NIHFW Workshop Sharpens Systems Thinking Skills

In collaboration with India’s National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, this workshop focused on systems thinking in public health and policy, with a focus on frameworks for navigating complexity, strengthening their ability to design and evaluate interventions within large, interconnected systems.

YRGCARE and GKII Collaborate on the TB Free Schools Initiative

The TB Free Schools Initiative addresses the shared goal of reducing tuberculosis risk in school settings by focusing on early awareness, prevention, and engagement with students and educators as part of a broader effort to address TB at the community level.

Breaking Silos: How Amita Gupta is Harnessing Global Collaboration for Public Health Innovation

Dr. Amita Gupta reflects on a career shaped by global partnerships and long-term institution building. She discusses how sustained collaboration between the U.S. and India has enabled research to move beyond silos and into real-world public health impact, emphasizing trust, continuity, and shared leadership as essential to global health innovation.

GKII Co-Hosts Seminar on the Future of India’s Education

This seminar brought together educators, researchers, and policy experts to discuss the future of India’s education system. The conversation explored innovation, institutional collaboration, and how research and practice can better inform long-term educational reform.

TB Free Schools Initiative Forms Steering Committee to Drive National Impact

As the TB Free Schools Initiative continues to grow, a steering committee has been formed to guide strategy and coordination, support alignment across partners, and help position the initiative for broader impact at the national level.

PROGRAMMATIC REPORTS

In Conversation: Innovative Leadership Training for India’s Civil Servants

GKII explores leadership training efforts for India’s civil servants, focusing on adaptive leadership, institutional capacity, and the skills needed to navigate complex governance challenges in practice.

Fighting TB Through Awareness: Lessons from the Pre-Study TB Awareness Program in Pune Schools

Drawing on work conducted in Pune schools, GKII shares lessons from early TB awareness activities conducted ahead of a formal study. Student engagement, messaging approaches, and on-the-ground insights helped shape how the program evolved.

GKII Breakthrough Research Grants Awardees Present Key Findings

Awardees from the GKII Breakthrough Research Grants program share early results and insights from projects supported by GKII’s Breakthrough Research Grants Program.

2025 IMPACT REPORTS

GKII Annual Report 2024

Our 2024 Annual Report chronicles a year of research, partnerships, and convenings across the GKII portfolio and how the Institute’s programs continue to strengthen U.S.–India collaboration and translate scholarship into action.

Hopkins India Conference 2025

Event Report Learn about key discussions and takeaways from the Hopkins India Conference 2025 and themes that emerged across a wide variety of engaging sessions.

Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel Award Impact Report (2023–25)

Explore student research and cross-border academic exchanges between the U.S. and India supported by the Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel Award.

Advancing Climate, Health, and Food Security through Research and Partnerships

Learn about work at the intersection of climate, health, and food security, and highlights of interdisciplinary research projects and partnerships that address these linked challenges.

GLOBAL LENS PODCAST

In Conversation: The Global Lens, Science Diplomacy in Focus

In this episode of The Global Lens, GKII India Director Neetisha Besra discusses how the U.S.–India research corridor is evolving and why the next few years are so critical. The conversation reviews science diplomacy, talent mobility, and how initiatives such as GKII’s India RISE and Breakthrough Grants are shaping the future of bilateral research collaboration.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS

GKII Scholar Prakhar Misra: Institutional Bottlenecks to Building Effective States

Prakhar Misra examines how public sector recruitment practices shape state capacity and governance outcomes. His work, supported by the Sunil Kumar and Sumati Murli Fellowship, focuses on the structural barriers that limit effective administration.

GKII Scholar Rose Pollard Kaptchuk: A Community-Led

Person-Centered Approach, Rose Pollard Kaptchuk discusses how her research is grounded in community-led and person-centered approaches, emphasizing participation, local knowledge, and shared ownership for development and policy efforts.

Why I Chose Hopkins: Sristi Bafna WSE '29

For Sristi Bafna, joining the M.S.E. in Data Science program at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering is about using technology to make systems more inclusive and intelligent. "I am eager to utilize my experience with applying data science for social impact and designing pipelines for citizen-facing data from marginalized communities in learning how to build scalable digital public goods during my time at graduate school.”

Alumni Spotlight: Bharati Chaturvedi (SAIS ’07), Centering People in Climate Action

Bharati Chaturvedi reflects on a career dedicated to climate action that keeps people and communities at the center. "Studying both the subaltern school of historiography and the Freedom movement at Delhi University taught me the power of collective action and people’s movements. It also showed me how much intelligence and negotiation skill exists in communities often dismissed as ‘uneducated.’”

Faculty Spotlight: Jugaad and the Future of AI in Healthcare, Ritu Agarwal, PhD

In the final faculty spotlight of 2025, Dr. Ritu Agarwal explains how India’s tradition of jugaad, or creative problem solving with limited resources, positions the country to lead in responsible and equitable AI for healthcare. She discusses the need for stronger data systems, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and national strategies to reduce bias and expand access, particularly for underserved communities.

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