Katie Vogelheim of the Board of Dean’s Advisors and Christopher Chin, HSPH India delegation member, with children from the Kaula Bandar slum community.
HSPH Delegation Visits
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delegation of Harvard School of Public Health friends and faculty members led by Dean Julio Frenk traveled to India from
March 9–17, 2012. The group visited several of the School’s research sites, networked with alumni, and further strengthened relationships with Indian government agencies, academic institutions, and local organizations. More than two dozen HSPH professors and senior researchers are currently undertaking a diverse array of projects across India in areas such as maternal health, infectious disease, children’s safety, and environmental health. Dean Frenk was the guest of honor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), where he delivered a talk on transforming health professional education. HSPH is collaborating with PHFI to develop public health education and leadership curricula. This effort will both support and build upon PHFI’s work to establish five critical topics such as nutrition, health systems and policy, and maternal and child health. Theresa Betancourt, SD ’03, assistant professor of child health and human rights, led a site visit to Mobile Crèches, a day care center on a construction site outside of Delhi. The HSPH delegation also toured the Kaula Bandar slum community with David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, and HSPH alumna Anita Patil-Deshmukh, MPH ’05. Other highlights of the trip included an alumni reception hosted by Swati Piramal, MPH ’92, and a symposium on chronic disease cosponsored by HSPH and the Harvard South Asia Initiative and Harvard Business School India Research Center. Dean Julio Frenk and Swati Piramal, MPH ’92, at the Piramal Healthcare Life Sciences Facility, in Mumbai. The HSPH shield is made of sand—a traditional art form known as Rangoli.
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