APRIL 17, 2023
THE LATEST
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Left to Right: GKII Co-Chair Sara Bennett, Dean Theodore DeWeese, Raj Gupta, Provost Sunil Kumar, GKII Co-chair Amita Gupta, Dean Ellen MacKenzie, GKII Director Melody McCoy |
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Honoring Provost Sunil Kumar
On March 20, The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute had the pleasure of hosting a distinguished gathering of Johns Hopkins University Deans, faculty, staff, and students to celebrate the outstanding leadership and contributions of JHU Provost Dr. Sunil Kumar. Held on the first day of spring, the event marked the start of a new season, symbolizing a new beginning for Dr. Kumar, who has been appointed the 14th president of Tufts University, effective July 1, 2023.
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Parul Christian in the Spotlight
Professor
Director of Program in Human Nutrition
“I'm passionate about the work that I do, and I speak up about maternal nutrition to push the agenda forward. Everything being done right now is limited and we need to double down.”
Dr. Parul Christian began her career in public health in the mid 1980s in India after being trained in foods and nutrition also from there, her home-country. Since that time, Christian, who is now Director of Program in Human Nutrition and Professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, has worked throughout South Asia on improving pregnancy-related outcomes and child growth and development through different types of nutritional interventions especially targeted towards alleviating micronutrient deficiencies in this context.
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Back row, left to right: Kunchok Dorjee, Amita Gupta, Mrs. Jampa Palmo (homeroom teacher)
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ID Division Director Sees Success Of Dharamshala Partnership Firsthand During Recent Visit
Dr. Amita Gupta, Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, was recently invited by Dr. Kunchok Dorjee to visit Dharamshala, India, the site of a collaborative project between Dr. Dorjee and Dr. Richard Chaisson, in partnership with the Central Tibetan Administration in India, Delek Hospital, and the Tibetan Central Village (TCV) schools. The project focuses on reducing tuberculosis disease among Tibetan communities residing in exile in Dharamshala through a variety of initiatives, like annual TB screening and LTBI treatment in school children (Zero TB in Tibetan Kids). These collective efforts have yielded impressive success, reducing rates of TB infection in these communities by more than 80%.
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Left to right: Neetisha Besra, GKII Deputy Director, Priyanka Das, GKII Program Manager, Naisargik Lenka - Biomedical Engineering, Shaili Tripathi - Biomedical Engineering, Rahul Swaminathan - Biomedical Engineering, Sharmane Surasinghe – Neuroscience and Computer Science, Kritika Gowda - Neuroscience and Economics, Melody McCoy, GKII Executive Director, Resham Talwar - Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, Mita Singh - Biomedical Engineering, Neha Chellu - Biomedical Engineering, Ishir Sharma - Biomedical Engineering | GKII Intern, Neha Tripathi - Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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JHU Undergraduate Student Engagement
The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute was thrilled to engage with Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students for food and conversation at Tamber’s Restaurant to discuss opportunities for professional development, collaboration, and student mentorship. We look forward to more events that forge impactful and enduring ties with JHU’s Indian student diaspora!
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PREVAIL: Combatting Childhood Pneumonia
Dr. Anita Shet Director of Child Health at the International Vaccine Access Center recently attended a PREVAIL Study Team meeting in UP to discuss preliminary findings from this childhood pneumonia vaccine impact evaluation being conducted across 6 hospitals in India.
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Partnering on Prevention: Leadership Training Program Empowers Nurses in Infection Control
In partnership with India’s National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), several Johns Hopkins faculty developed and recently implemented a master nursing leadership training program on infection prevention and control practices. Dr. Nancy Reynolds, Dr. Vinciya Pandian, and Maria Docal of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Dr. Brian Wahl of the Bloomberg School of Public Health represented JHU’s contributions to the program, which is part of a nationwide initiative by the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW). Between October 2022 and February 2023, training was provided to 128 nurses representing northeastern, northwestern, and southern states in India.
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Heaps of Success at HEEP Event
On March 11, Sridevi Sarma, Vice Dean for Graduate Education and Lifelong Learning and Associate Professor and Hong Lan, Director of Special Projects, hosted the inaugural Hopkins Engineering Exploratory Program (HEEP) for prospective graduate students. The seven-day event brought together 23 students, including 13 from India, to view 16 curated lectures by Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) faculty.
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India Research Partnership Commemorates World TB Day 2023
Held in collaboration with National Tuberculosis Control Programme for Maharashtra State staff, the event was led by Dr. Nishi Suryavanshi, Clinical Research Site Coordinator and Deputy Director for the Indo-JHU research partnership in Pune. Activities including a special street play, counseling sessions, and research and education discussions, aimed to engage the community in healthy approaches to TB treatment and prevention under this year’s World TB Day theme "Yes we can end TB."
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250,000 patients to benefit from free access to short-course TB prevention treatment across seven countries
The Unitaid-funded IMPAACT4TB Consortium, led by the Aurum Institute with the JHU-India Clinical Research Partnership in Pune as a member, announced that it will provide 250,000 patient courses of short course rifapentine-based preventive treatment regimens to seven countries to help prevent tuberculosis (TB). The patient courses will include the three-month 3HP regimen, and the even shorter 1HP, that is only taken for 28 days. This contribution is part of the Consortium’s ongoing efforts to end TB and improve global health outcomes.
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Yukari Manabe launches Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases
The mission of CIDID is to promote the development of accessible infectious diseases diagnostics through multidisciplinary innovation along the development pipeline from research to impact in different global settings.
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SMART4TB Declares 2023 A Pivotal Year For Global Commitments To Ending Tuberculosis
Supporting, Mobilizing, and Accelerating Research to Eliminate Tuberculosis (SMART4TB), an initiative made possible by the generosity of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), commemorates World TB Day by calling for renewed commitments to ending the tuberculosis epidemic. Over 1.6 million people die across the globe each year from this preventable, curable disease.
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Save the Date: Guest Lecture Featuring Award Winning Indian Journalist Barkha Dutt
Monday, May 1, 2023
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Barkha Dutt, an award-winning broadcast journalist from India will be visiting Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University on May 1. Mark your calendars for her upcoming hybrid guest lecture, with with more information and an RSVP to come!
About Barkha
Barkha Dutt has more than two decades of reporting experience. She is the founding editor of Mojo Story, a multi-media digital platform and author of two books: “This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines” and “To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID.” Barkha is the recipient of over 40 national and international awards including the Padmashri, India's fourth-highest civilian honor, the Asian TV award for Best Presenter and Best TV Show, recognized twice as Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, and selected as a Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow at the Brown University's Watson Institute (2012). She currently features as a columnist with the Washington Post.
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Eliminating Tuberculosis: Partnerships in Action in India
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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Tuberculosis remains the top global infectious disease killer behind COVID-19 and although deaths have fallen approximately 40% since 2000, 1.6 million people still die annually. In India, Tibetan refugee children are 5 times more likely to contract TB than their Indian peers. Join Kunchok Dorjee from the Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World as he discusses how the Alliance leverages expertise in the areas of health communications, health economics, psycho-educational counseling, and TB control and treatment and partners with local stakeholders to conduct school-based screenings and implement novel drug regimens which have led to >80% reduction of TB case rate in boarding schools and among the Tibetan child refugee population in Northern India.
This event will be virtual.
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