Steering Committee
Expanded Steering Committee
This includes members of the Cabinet.
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Ali Asani
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Satchit Balsari
Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Homi Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS; Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost
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Jacqueline Bhabha
FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health; the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School; and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
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Caroline Buckee
Professor of Epidemiology, HSPH
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Martha Chen
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Affiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, FAS; Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS
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Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
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Asim Khwaja
Director, Center for International Development; Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Jinah Kim
George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Harvard University
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Jennifer Leaning
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Senior Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
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Mashail Malik
Assistant Professor, Department of Government
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Rahul Mehrotra
Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design; John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
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Durba Mitra
Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute
Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
ProfileAssistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
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Venkatesh Murthy
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
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Vikram Patel
The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
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Parimal G. Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Sanjay Saini
Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
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Daniel Schrag
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Ajay Singh
Senior Associate Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education, Harvard Medical School
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Pawan Sinha
Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT
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Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies
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Kristen A. Stilt
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World; Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program
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Ashutosh Varshney
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Brown University; Director, Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University
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Conor Walsh
Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Associate Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
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Muhammad H. Zaman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, Boston University
ProfileIn remembrance of Steering Committee member Dr. Richard A. Cash (1941–2024).