India Research Center
The India Research Center, based in Mumbai, serves as a hub for Harvard Chan School’s research projects, educational programs, and knowledge translation and communication work across India.
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Narotam Sekhsaria Fellowship
The Harvard Chan India Research Center is happy to announce the first Narotam Seksharia Fellows starting in March 2025. For the 2025-26 cycle, the Narotam Sekhsaria Fellows at Harvard Chan India Research Center are Dr. Imnameren Longkumer and Dr. Rohan Shah. This one-year fellowship aims to support early-stage investigators (ESIs) in public health in India to work with and receive mentorship from faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on a defined research project and gain experience conducting primary research in public health. The fellowship also provides support for the fellows to further their research goals. Additionally, the fellowship covers for the fellow to visit their faculty mentor in Boston as well as for their faculty mentor to visit them at their place of research in India.
His research is focused on reducing the burden of high blood pressure, understanding the determinants of cardiovascular morbidities, and to strengthen the implementation of national NCD programme at community level.
He aims to synthesize existing evidence to inform future research and policy about how to improve current anaemia control programmes in India.