Category : In Region
Oct 14, 2015 | Community, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, India, Nepal, News, Pakistan, Students
Big data has huge potential – it can help track diseases, make government more efficient, or allow businesses to better understand their customers. In a SAI webinar titled ‘Who owns Big Data?” on October 13, Malavika Jayaram, Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center...
Oct 8, 2015 | Faculty, In Region, India, News, Students
On Sept. 21, students from SAI’s summer program on mobile technology presented their final projects on campus, which focused on using cell phones to improve education and public health in India.
Oct 6, 2015 | Faculty, India, News, South Asia in the News
This article was published in The Indian Express By Tarun Khanna, Director of the South Asia Institute, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School That India should not be afraid might seem an odd thing to say at a time when Indians are brimming with...
Oct 1, 2015 | Fellows, News, Pakistan
While at Harvard, Dr. Younas will focus his research on two areas: 1) The connection between education and political violence, and 2) the perspectives of the recipient country in situations where donor countries provide grants and loans.
Sep 29, 2015 | Bangladesh, India, Nepal, News, Pakistan, Students
SAI offers research, internship, and language study grants to Harvard graduate students and Harvard College undergraduate students for the winter session.
Sep 25, 2015 | Community, Faculty, India, News
The Jana Swasthya Project is using a new mobile health surveillance system to help keep the millions of visitors healthy while they’re at the festival.
Sep 17, 2015 | Faculty, News, Pakistan
SAI hosted its first webinar of the semester on September 15 titled ‘Using Cell Phones to Study Behavior: From Individuals to Entire Nations’ with JP Onnela, HSPH.
Sep 17, 2015 | Bangladesh, Community, News, South Asia in the News
SAI spoke with director Zara Hayes about her film on the Rana Plaza Tragedy.
Sep 10, 2015 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, Fellows, India, News, South Asia in the News, Students
The cornerstone of the project is a unique interactive visual analytic tool that provides critical disease surveillance data to health officials in real time
Sep 10, 2015 | Alumni, Bangladesh, Community, Faculty, In Region, News, Students
On September 3, TraumaLink co-founders Jon Moussally and Ryan Fu, both graduates of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, gave a lunchtime lecture at Harvard on their work in Bangladesh. They discussed how they have been able to develop the first pre-hospital...
Sep 8, 2015 | Alumni, Bangladesh, Community, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, India, Nepal, News, Pakistan, Students
The first webinar, on September 15, will focus on using cell phones to study behavior.
Sep 2, 2015 | Community, Faculty, In Region, News, Students
Grant prizes will be awarded to interdisciplinary student projects that positively impact societal, economic, and environmental issues in India
