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Join us Today: Barkha Dutt: Health Beyond the Headlines
Monday, May 1, 2023
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Please join us for an exciting in-person conversation with award-winning Indian broadcast journalist and author Barkha Dutt. This discussion will explore learnings for the Indian healthcare system from COVID-19 and beyond, gender equity, community building, healthcare in the digital era in India, and the power of storytelling.
Introduction by: Amita Gupta, Co-Chair - GKII
Moderated by: Sara Bennett, Co-Chair - GKII
May 1, 2023
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. EDT
Refreshments to follow
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Wolfe W1214 (Sheldon Hall)
615 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205
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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Chirag Parikh Visits Koita, Hinduja, to Further Collaboration
Dr. Chirag Parikh, Professor of Medicine, JHU, recently met with partners in Mumbai at the Koita Centre for Digital Health and the PD Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre to explore collaboration opportunities. Discussions with Koita Centre for Digital Health focused on approaches for advancing data science, diabetic kidney disease research, and opportunities for undergraduate trainees, and at Hinduja, Dr. Parikh met with CEO Gautam Khanna and colleagues to discuss infectious diseases and research.
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Left to right: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Professor in Charge, Koita Centre for Digital Health, Dr. Chirag Parikh, Professor of Medicine, JHU, Dr. Kshitij Jhadav, Assistant Professor, Koita Centre for Digital Health. | |
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"The Future of the Indian Economy" FICCI roundtable hosted by SAIS professor Pravin Krishna
Dr. Pravin Krishna, Chung Ju Yung Professor of International Economics, convened a roundtable at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies on April 12 featuring some of India’s leading CEOs.
Roundtable Participants included Mr. Subhrakant Panda, President FICCI & Managing Director, Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd; Mr. Shailesh K Pathak, Secretary General, FICCI; Mr. Lakshmanan Chidambaram, President-Americas, Tech Mahindra Ltd; Mr. Alok B Shriram, Senior Managing Director & CEO, DCM Shriram Industries Ltd; Ms. Kanika Shriram, President, DCM Shriram Industries Ltd; Mr. Vijay Chandok, Managing Director, ICICI Securities; Mr. Sunil Sanghai, Founder & CEO, NovaaOne Capital Pvt Ltd; Ms. Swapna Das, Country Head, FICCI USA; Mr. Gaurav Vats, Director, North America, FICCI.
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AAU Names Members to Task Force on Expanding U.S.-India University Partnerships
Association of American Universities: April 6, 2023
The Association of American Universities has appointed members and co-chairs to a new task force to study expanding research and higher education partnerships between the United States and India. The co-chairs of the AAU Task Force on Expanding United States-India University Partnerships includes Johns Hopkins University Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Sunil Kumar.
Dr. Amita Gupta, GKII co-chair and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, was also appointed to the task force.
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National Institutes of Health: April 11, 2023
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial was stopped early because a daily statin medication was found to reduce the increased risk of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV in the first large-scale clinical study to test a primary cardiovascular prevention strategy in this population. The JHU-India Clinical Research Partnership in Pune was a participating site for this trial.
A planned interim analysis of data from the Randomized Trial to Prevent Vascular Events in HIV (REPRIEVE) study found that participants who took pitavastatin calcium, a daily statin, lowered their risk of major adverse cardiovascular events by 35% compared with those receiving a placebo. Adverse drug events observed in the study were like those in the general population taking statin therapy. The interim analysis was sufficiently compelling that the study’s independent Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) recommended it be stopped early given adequate evidence of efficacy. The NIH accepted the DSMB recommendations.
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Algorithm could hold key to child TB diagnosis
By Sanjeet Bagcchi: SciDev.Net: March 24, 2023
Amita Gupta, director of the division of infectious diseases at the US-based Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told SciDev.Net: “Development of easy-to-use, inexpensive tools to rapidly identify children who have TB is critical, as our current diagnostic tools remain woefully inadequate and often are not readily accessible in community and primary care settings.
“[These are] exactly the type of approaches and algorithms we need to advance our ability to more rapidly detect and start TB treatment in high-TB-burden primary care settings.”
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‘Recognition Of Health Is Real Wealth’: Dr Nitish Dogra On The Launch Of ‘The Apex Beat’
News Mobile Health Bureau: April 10, 2023
As the world celebrated ‘World Health Day’, JHU Alumnus Dr. Nitish Dogra, launched his collection of compositions “The Apex Beat”, a book that takes readers on a journey of rediscovering treasured memories to the recognition of health as the real wealth to the realization of the fragility of life and everything in between. The work has been co-created with Gauri Sawhney.
Dr. Brian Wahl, faculty at John Hopkins University, during the launch reiterated the definition of ‘health’ as “the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
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17th Annual BioPharma & Healthcare Summit
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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The USA-India Chamber of Commerce has created an ecosystem committed to driving a global dialogue on BioPharma & Healthcare innovation, attracting a diverse mix of senior industry professionals and catalyzing partnerships, new ideas, networks and regulatory reform. They are offering free registration to their annual virtual summit.
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Global Health Systems Summer Institute
June 5-30, 2023
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The Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is hosting a Global Health Systems Summer Institute. The Institute is a great opportunity for early- to mid-career public health professionals to expand their skill sets and improve job performance.
Topics include global health technology and innovation, health economics, primary health care, global health entrepreneurship, health systems strengthening, the private sector and global health, health systems management, health policy, health financing, and more.
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The worldwide control rate for hypertension is dismal. An inadequate number of physicians to treat patients with hypertension is one key obstacle. Innovative health system approaches such as delegation of basic tasks to non-physician health workers (task-sharing) might alleviate this problem. Massive scale up of population-wide hypertension management is especially important for low- and middle-income countries such as India.
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Simons–Ashoka Early Career Fellowship in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences
The Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University is launching the Simons–Ashoka Early Career Fellowship in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, a novel initiative by the Simons Foundation outside the United States, and in a developing country.
This unique model of collaborative research in the quantitative biomedical sciences and allied fields has the vision to:
- Build an innovative and multidisciplinary research community using advanced mathematical and computational methods in analysis of health data and in addressing problems in fundamental biomedical sciences with impact on health.
- Extend the impact of the Simons Foundation to address healthcare needs in low- and middle-income countries.
- Incubate pioneering initiatives in the field of personalised medicine, as a model for similar efforts in institutions across the world.
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JHU Graduate Student Funding Opportunities | Johns Hopkins University has updated its repository of federal and private funding opportunities for graduate students. Opportunities are pre-sorted chronologically and alphabetically, and can be searched by funding amount and topic. | |
Looking for Student Support? | Johns Hopkins faculty who are seeking student support for India-related projects can now submit position descriptions. We will post them online and share in our email updates! | | | | |
