SAI welcomes Sanjay Kumar, India Country Director
SAI is pleased to welcome Sanjay Kumar to the team as our India Country Director. He will lead all of SAI’s activities in India and will be based at our office in Delhi.
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A change called NeHA
In an article for the Indian Express, Satchit Balsari and Tarun Khanna write that the proposed National e-Health Authority could launch a digital health revolution in India, but safeguards need to be in place to protect patients’ privacy. This is in follow up to the recently held Radcliffe Advanced Seminar, “Exchanging Health Information.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
See what the SAI community is thankful for this year.
Nov. 29 – Dec. 9: Visiting Artists at Harvard
During their time at Harvard, the artists will display their work on campus, meet with students, attend courses, and give a public seminar.
[Video] DeCoding Asia: Mediating the Megalopolis
In this video, architecture historian and critic Kenneth Frampton talks about the processes of urbanization. He advocates for landscape architecture and the megaform as tools for mediating the rise of today’s megalopolis.
A peek at Harvard Art Museums’ South Asia collection
Rachel Parikh (@rachel.parikh), the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow of South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums took over SAI’s Instagram account (@HarvardSAI) to highlight some of the museum’s amazing South Asian Art collection.
Nov. 7 – 11: Go Inside the Harvard Art Museums with SAI
Rachel Parikh, the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow of South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums, will be posting from Nov. 7 – 11 will be posting some highlights from the Museum’s extensive collection.
Call For Proposals: Workshop on Animal Agriculture from the Middle East to Asia, May 11-12, 2017
The workshop will bring together experts to exchange ideas as an initial step toward the goal of a broader collaborative research project.
Mukti Khaire appointed first Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell University
Congratulations to Mukti Khaire on being appointed the first Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell University. Khaire is one of the faculty directors for the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. Khaire served as the Professor of Practice...
Shafiqul Islam wins Water Prize
Islam is the director of the Boston Water Group, a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who but work around the world to address problems that involve water.
Disease and politics: Lessons from Calcutta and Canton
At a recent meeting of the Brown/Harvard/MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics on Oct. 14,
Prerna Singh, Brown University, compared the success of the smallpox vaccine in 19th century Calcutta and Canton to show that new medical technologies must be embedded in existing cultural norms to be effective.
Towards better health information exchange
SAI hosted a seminar with the Radcliffe Institute in September that sought to identify the technical and policy barriers to better health information exchange, with a focus on India.