The South Asia Institute has awarded 20 grants to support student projects over the Winter Session 2016 in January. These include 9 graduate students and 11 undergraduate students who will travel to India, Nepal, and Pakistan for research and internships.
Graduate Students
Hira Baig, MTS ’16, Harvard Divinity School
A Proposal to Pursue an Internship in Women’s Advocacy at Shirkat Gah in Karachi, Pakistan
Yoko Okura, MPP ’17 Harvard Kennedy School
Building natural disaster resilience after the 2014 Nepal earthquake by reconstructing school infrastructure and incorporating resilience education in the Ramechhap District
Syeda Farwa Fatima, EdM ’16 Harvard Graduate School of Education
Understanding Special Education System in Pakistan
Rohit Kumar MPA-ID ’16 Harvard Kennedy School
Reducing inefficiencies in agricultural markets in India
Muhammad Zia Mehmood, MPP ’16 Harvard Kennedy School
Resolving Refusals: Polio vaccinations in Pakistan
Soledad Prillaman, Ph.D ’17
Disconnected and Uninformed: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Gender Gap in Political Participation
Vyasan Radhakrishnan, MPA-ID ’16 Harvard Kennedy School
Understanding inefficiencies in India’s agricultural markets with a view to suggest robust policy options to remove them
Anne Shrestha, MPA-ID ’16 Harvard Kennedy School
Research work for Second Year Policy Analysis: Electricity Crisis in Nepal
Hannah Yoo, DDM ’18 Harvard Dental School
Analysis of Indian Mothers’ Protective Factors on Child’s Oral and Nutritional Health
Undergraduate Students
Javier Aranzales, Government ’16
Internship with Evaldesign to research impact assessments of education interventions for development
Anjali Chandra ’19
WHO India’s 100% Vaccination and Polio Eradication monitoring Campaign
Sarah Rahman ’18
Internship at St. Jude ChildCare Centres
Shaiba Rather ‘17
Internship with NDTV in India
Zuneera Shah ‘19
Internship at the History Project, Pakistan
Bharath Venkatesh ’17
Nonprofit internship in economic consulting in Nepal
Neil Davey ‘18
Harvard Development Initiative, with the goal of empowering local change-makers to spur development
Pranay Nadella ’18
Harvard Development Initiative – Development Entrepreneurship Course and Experiential Learning
Raj Vatsa ’18
Lay groundwork with schools and NGOs in India for an innovative student-run development initiative
Austin Wu ‘16
Nepal Earthquake Relief Effort Data Usage Narrative
Patrick Xu ’16
Nepal Earthquake Relief Effort Data Usage Narrative