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Zero TB in Kids, a global health initiative spearheaded by Dr. Kunchok Dorjee, has launched a new website! Check it out!

This initiative works to combat tuberculosis in monasteries, boarding schools, and refugee settlements across South Asia.

https://zerotb.jhmi.edu/

The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute and the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design - CBID are continuing their collaboration on the initiative with an educational experience focusing on the Indian healthcare system in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Our visiting team of Hopkins students, Amanda Cheung, Emma Turner, Ishir Sharma, Mads Bundgaard Nørløv, Mark S. and Sabrina Chen were accompanied by GKII Program Manager Dr. Meghashish Sharma.

They were greeted by the Community Medicine and Family Medicine department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and were fortunate to have their guidance on other visits throughout the trip. This included traveling to a district tuberculosis unit to learn about how diagnosis, treatment, and adherence operated at the district level and speaking with a district TB officer to learn about the treatment protocols and platforms to monitor treatment adherence.

They also visited a block level primary health center, and multiple health and wellness centers where they met with lab managers, medical officers, treatment supervisors, community health officers, and ASHA workers before wrapping up the trip with a visit to a vaccination clinic hosted at a primary school in a rural village.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who welcomed them and contributed to this enriching experience!

As the Fall semester begins, the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute is excited to welcome a new group of international students from India to . These students bring unique perspectives, rich cultural backgrounds, and a dedication to learning that enhances our Hopkins community.

We connected with four incoming students who are ready to embark on their academic journeys at Hopkins. From exploring new research opportunities to engaging in the vibrant campus life, each of them is eager to make the most of their time here.

🎓 As a Freshman studying biomedical engineering at , Mariam Husain is keen to explore the intersection of biomedical engineering and healthcare.
🎓 Simran Kaur Dang, a Freshman at , looks forward to laying the groundwork for a fulfilling college experience.
🎓 Harish Balasubramanian, a MSE-BME student at , is excited to learn and contribute to medical technology.
🎓 Sneha A S, a Biotechnology graduate student at Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs, is ready to dive into the world of biotechnology.

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community-- featured in our September 2024 "Community Voices" newsletter! Check out some of our top stories:

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Digvijay Singh, co-founder of Drizzle Health, addresses how critical gaps in disease diagnostics led to the creation of MagnaSlide, a low-cost device that improves the accuracy of testing without disrupting existing lab infrastructures.

Prof. Jonathan Golub shared insights into his and research, and how he's paving the way for the next generation of TB researchers.

New students Simran Kaur Dang, Harish Balasubramanian, Sneha A S, and Mariam Husain explore their motivations for choosing Hopkins, their expectations for their journey ahead, and the personal stories that shape their academic and career aspirations.

As part of a promising research collaboration, Emily Kendall and Dr. Mithun K. Mitra from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay are pushing the boundaries of tuberculosis research.

Supported by the Breakthrough Research Grant on Digital Health, co-funded by the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University and their research will be exploring how India’s digital health data can help improve TB treatments.

As Dr. Kendall explains, “This GKII breakthrough grant will allow our team from JHU and IIT-Bombay to explore how routinely collected electronic health data from India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Program can be leveraged to amplify the impact of clinical TB research. We have been studying interventions to detect recurrent TB in a trial led by our co-investigator Dr. Jonathan Golub, but trial participation may itself increase recognition and detection of TB recurrence.”

By comparing study data with information from India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Program, they hope to gain new insights into how TB interventions are working and how they impact patient health. We look forward to seeing how this innovative approach will advance the fight against TB!

Our latest newsletter highlights fantastic opportunities for students, researchers, and professionals. In case you missed it, here’s a quick round-up.

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Happy Independence Day, India!

As India marks the 78th year of independence, the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at The Johns Hopkins University celebrates the nation’s progress and our ongoing partnerships in research, education, and global health.

Here’s to continued collaboration and a brighter future together!

Happy Independence Day, India!

As India marks the 78th year of independence, the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at The Johns Hopkins University celebrates the nation's progress and our ongoing partnerships in research, education, and global health.

Here's to continued collaboration and a brighter future together!

Meet our Communication Intern – Hayley Chu!

Hayley is a rising senior at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, majoring in Computer Engineering and Economics. She hails from Hongkong and has previously worked at the JHU Office of Communications as a student content creator. She’s supporting the team at GKII in boosting our Instagram presence.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health was recently awarded a $1.1 million grant from the India country office of the Gates Foundation to support the transition of a portfolio of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and health systems strengthening investments from multiple international organizations to local organizations based in Uttar Pradesh, India and Bihar, India.

Dr. Sara Bennett, professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and GKII faculty co-chair, explained that she will support the transition. “Successful programmatic transition should prioritize sustainability through developing the capacity of local organizations and through country-driven efforts,” she said. “Strategies for the transition should be locally designed and be led by domestic partners that are closest to the community.”

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Dr. Nilanjan Chatterjee was recently invited to deliver the P.C. Mahalanobis Lecture, hosted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in celebration of National Statistics Day. This distinguished lecture series has featured renowned economists, mathematicians, and statisticians, including multiple Nobel Laureates.

Dr. Chatterjee’s lecture focused on the methodology and applications for integrating different data sources to build predictive models for individualized health.

Professor Mahalanobis is revered as the founder of statistics and the Indian Statistical Institute in India. He was also a key architect of India’s post-independence economic development plan.

Congratulations, Dr. Chatterjee, on this remarkable honor! 👏

On June 25, several JHU faculty traveled to India recently to mark the establishment of a new laboratory at the YRG Care Suniti Solomon Center in Chennai, India. We are enormously proud to support the lab, made possible through generous contributions from GKII Advisory Board members Raj and Kamla Gupta, Maureen Sherry, and Steven Klinsky, the lab will serve as a pivotal hub for cutting-edge research on infectious diseases, driving innovation, and pioneering new prevention and treatment strategies.
 
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Meet our Communication Intern – Yash Bagde!

Yash is a mechanical engineer from Aurangabad, India, currently pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering Management at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Yash is supporting the GKII team in documenting the impact of JHU faculty-led research projects in India.

Read more about his pursuits in this brief Q&A!

⭐ Spotlighting the Awardees of the 2024 Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel (GHRST) Grant ⭐

Sahana Shekhar, a Master of Science in Public Health student at , is currently in Bengaluru conducting a research project focused on Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC).

Under the mentorship of Professor Svea Closser, Sahana is closely supporting on implementation research to build institutional capacity and scale up KMC coverage and quality across selected districts of Karnataka through advocacy and technical support.

This grant is made possible by the generous contributions of Girish Rishi, a JHU alumnus, and his wife, Himangi Rishi. The GHRST Grant supports JHU students traveling to India for Global Health Established Field Placement (GHEFP) projects.

As part of a new Johns Hopkins Department of International Health series about public health legacies, Sara Woodward and Brandon Howard from the Johns Hopkins Department of International Health sat down with Dr. Mathuram Santosham to discuss his impactful career accomplishments and what he sees as priorities in international public health.

This Q&A discusses Dr. Santosham's background in , , , and more. Be sure to check it out!

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Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Koita Centre for Digital Health - KCDH (IIT Bombay) are delighted to announce the winners of the GKII-KCDH Breakthrough Research Grant on Digital Health.

Winning Team #1
Dr. Emily Kendall, MD PhD and Dr. Mithun K. Moitra
Research Proposal: Leveraging India’s digital surveillance system for tuberculosis to assess the effectiveness and impact of novel interventions

Winning Team #2
Dr. Nilanjan Chatterjee and Dr. Saket Choudhary
Research Proposal: Development of a breast cancer risk prediction tool for the Indian population

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to both teams and offer our best wishes for the success of their projects.

Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at The Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are excited to welcome MA Subramanian, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu, India for a special seminar:

📅 Healthcare Delivery at People’s Doorstep (Makkalai Thedi Maruthvam)
🕛 July 9, 2024 | 12:00-1:15 PM ET
📍 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Room W5030, 615 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD, 21205
🔗 RSVP link: http://bit.ly/4eD9Li7

All are welcome. Please RSVP to join in person. Kindly note that there is no virtual attendance option available for this event.

Check out our latest Community Voice featuring Lipin Lukose, BSPH '24, founder of the Johns Hopkins Indian Student Association, as he discusses , , and opportunities for international students at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Lipin is a healthcare professional blending expertise in pharmacy, public health and clinical research, and is wrapping up his Masters in Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Lipin Lukose, BSPH '24 - Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University MPH, Johns Hopkins University PharmD, Manipal University LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lipin-lukose-030a04214/ Lipin is a healthcare professional blending expertise in pharmacy, public health and clinical research. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Public Health from the Bloomberg Scho...

GKII was very excited to host Mr. Ajit Isaac on his visit to the university. We exchanged ideas and explored potential collaborations and opportunities with the Isaac Foundation and its partners in India. Special thanks to the Johns Hopkins Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Hopkins Palliative Care Unit at the School of Medicine for joining this discussion.

Mr. Isaac is a distinguished entrepreneur and philanthropist in India. He is the Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Quess Corp, India’s largest private employer and a significant player in the business services sector. Mr. Isaac has been notably recognized for his generous philanthropic efforts, notably his contributions to education and public health, which have had transformative impacts on communities.

Dr. Amita Gupta recently presented about the Schools Initiative at the Frontier Talks, hosted by the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design - CBID - at Johns Hopkins! She discussed the challenges of in and Globally, and how GKII plans to combat this through school based screening and treatment.

This year approximately 22 students from different disciplines and countries have joined the CBID cohort, and several of them will be co-working with us under the TB Free Schools Initiative to bring about technological innovations! This will build a digital decision support system for clinicians looking to diagnose for latent and active TB among pediatric populations, which is currently under diagnosed. Students will also help with building a treatment adherence solution for school going children.

We are incredibly excited to join forces with CBID on this initiative!

BIG NEWS 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute has been selected for the prestigious 2024 Johns Hopkins Nexus Award for our convening proposal to host a first-of-its-kind conference with an “India focus” at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.

This honor marks a significant milestone in our commitment to fostering meaningful collaboration and advancing knowledge sharing by bringing the best of Johns Hopkins and India under one roof.

We are grateful for the support and recognition from the Johns Hopkins community. Stay tuned for more updates as we embark on this exciting journey!

BIG NEWS 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute has been selected for the prestigious 2024 Johns Hopkins Nexus Award for our convening proposal to host a first-of-its-kind conference with an "India focus" at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.

This honor marks a significant milestone in our commitment to fostering meaningful collaboration and advancing knowledge sharing by bringing the best of Johns Hopkins and India under one roof.

We are grateful for the support and recognition from the Johns Hopkins community. Stay tuned for more updates as we embark on this exciting journey! 🚀

⭐ Spotlighting the Awardees of the 2024 Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel (GHRST) Grant⭐

Katherine Lim, a student of MSPH in Health Systems, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is one of the awardees of the joint GKII-GHEFP student travel grant. She will be working under the mentorship of Professor Krishna Rao on the India Primary Health Care Support Initiative (IPSI). The initiative, spearheaded by The Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with the AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi) and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, works under the guidance of the National Health Systems Resource Centre to strengthen delivery and performance assessments of primary healthcare systems across selected Indian states.

Supported by the generous contributions of Girish Rishi, a JHU alumnus, and his wife, Himangi Rishi, the GHRST Grant would be supporting JHU students to travel to India for Global Health Established Field Placement (GHEFP) projects.

June 3rd marked the last day of Melody McCoy’s tenure as GKII’s inaugural Executive Director. In a year and a half, Director McCoy oversaw radical transformation and growth for institute and injected much needed direction and enthusiasm into our team and our mission. She will be sorely missed, but her presence will always be felt. Here are some excerpts from her last message to the GKII community as our director. We wish her luck on her next great adventure! 🌹

⭐ Spotlighting the Awardees of the 2024 Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel (GHRST) Grant⭐

Hrishikesh Sathyamoorthy​ is studying Master of Science (ScM) Epidemiology​ at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He will be working under the mentorship of Professor Anita Shet on the Positive Running program, a peer-led physical fitness initiative to improve outcomes among adolescents and youth living with HIV. Hrishikesh will assist in the recruitment of new participants, develop nutrition-related guidance, and provide insights for scaling up the program.

Supported by the generous contributions of Girish Rishi, a JHU alumnus, and his wife, Himangi Rishi, the GHRST Grant would be supporting JHU students to travel to India for Global Health Established Field Placement (GHEFP) projects.

⭐ Spotlighting the Awardees of the 2024 Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel (GHRST) Grant⭐

JaeLynn Taylor is a pursuing MSPH in Health Education and Health Communications at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She will be working under the mentorship of Professor Brian Wahl on the “Supporting Equitable Wellness through Advanced Research and Training in Health (SEWARTH)​“ project, a collaboration between the Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Gorakhpur to partner in research and training. ​

JaeLynn will assist in developing training modules to improve communication for efficient data collection under the SEWARTH-Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS).

Supported by the generous contributions of Girish Rishi, a JHU alumnus, and his wife, Himangi Rishi, the GHRST Grant would be supporting JHU students to travel to India for Global Health Established Field Placement (GHEFP) projects.

Check out the latest from GKII! Our mid-May newsletter The May 15 newsletter shares many fantastic kudos to our affiliated members, lots of the latest new . Smisha Agarwal, Pravin Krishna and Devesh Kapur features in the news, and a link to our annual report!

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⭐ Spotlighting the Awardees of the 2024 Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel (GHRST) Grant⭐

JaeLynn Taylor is pursuing MSPH in Health Education and Health Communications at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She will be working under the mentorship of Professor Brian Wahl on the "Supporting Equitable Wellness through Advanced Research and Training in Health (SEWARTH)​" project, a collaboration between the Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Gorakhpur to partner in research and training. ​

JaeLynn will assist in developing training modules to improve communication for efficient data collection under the SEWARTH-Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS).

Supported by the generous contributions of Girish Rishi, a JHU alumnus, and his wife, Himangi Rishi, the GHRST Grant would be supporting JHU students to travel to India for Global Health Established Field Placement (GHEFP) projects.