2014 Pardee Summer Fellow Wins Santander Universities Scholarship

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2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Abhishek Sharma was recently awarded a Santander Universities Scholarship, offered by the Department of Global Health at Boston University’s School of Public Health.

With colleagues at the BU Center for Global Health and Development (BU CGHD), Abhishek has been working on research projects regarding global trade/markets and access to insulin. This scholarship will support Abhishek’s research on access to insulin in India at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in New Delhi, India. Starting in January 2015, he will spend six weeks at PHFI conducting a quantitative time-series (2004-2012) insulin consumption study. This will be a collaborative effort with colleagues at BU CGHD and PHFI. The study aims to inform policies and clinical practices regarding insulin use for improving access to insulin in India, the country with the highest number of people living with diabetes in the world.

Visit the Graduate Summer Fellows Program page to learn more about the program.