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NEW DATE! Digital Health and AI in Indian Healthcare

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Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 05:30pm, ET

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CGIS South, S050

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This seminar will cover ICMR’s focus on how digital health and AI address key challenges in India’s healthcare delivery system—particularly those arising from underutilized primary care centers and overburdened tertiary hospitals. ICMR has developed over 100 national digital data systems. Building on this foundation, Dr. Singh will introduce MIDAS and MIDAS 2.0as quality frameworks for AI-ready datasets, outline integration opportunities with Harvard’s Dataverse (including differential privacy), and share a vision for automated primary health centers. 

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Moral Vaccination: Ideas and Institutions in the Control of Contagion in China and India

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Wed, Oct 15, 2025 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm, ET

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Ash Center Seminar Room 225, Suite 200, 124 Mount Auburn Street

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Join Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University, for a Global Challenges to Democracy Seminar.

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Monetizing Air: The Cost of ‘Free Housing’ in Mumbai – The State of Architecture in South Asia

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Thu, Sep 25, 2025 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

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Cambridge – CGIS South, S250

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Join us for another session of the popular State of Architecture in South Asia series that will discuss Dharavi, popularly referred to as ‘Asia’s largest slum.’ The most coveted asset in the Dharavi redevelopment is air: the state is offering air-rights as incentives for rehabilitating ‘slum dwellers.’

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To Reach the Source: The Stepwells of India with Claudio Cambon

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Wed, Mar 5, 2025 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

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Cambridge – Center for the Environment, Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street

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Stepwell

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute invite you to hear from photographer and environmental artist Claudio Cambon, whose To Reach the Source: The Stepwells of India series is currently on display at the Center for the Environment.

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“How Partisan are the ‘Village Republics’? How Democratization Shapes Local Partisanship in India” – Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics

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Fri, Feb 28, 2025 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

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Cambridge – CGIS South, S153

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The Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics will discuss the relationship between local elected officials (such as the Gram Pradhans, or Village Council Presidents) and elected officials at the state level (Members of the Legislative Assembly or MLA).

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NEW DATE | Fireside Chat with Lakshmi Puri, Author of “Swallowing the Sun” and former UN Assistant Secretary-General

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Tue, Nov 19, 2024 from 02:00pm — 03:30pm, ET

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Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School

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The India Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School and the Mittal Institute invite to you a fireside chat with Lakshmi Puri, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, to discuss her critically acclaimed and best-selling novel, Swallowing the Sun.

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A Conversation with Rt. Hon. KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal

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Fri, Sep 27, 2024 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm, ET

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Hybrid – JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge; and via YouTube live stream

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A Conversation with Rt. Hon. KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal

Join us for a conversation with Rt. Hon. KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal; a wide-ranging discussion that will touch on the current state of governance and development in Nepal, the response to climate change, and relationships with India, China, and the United States.

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