SPH Student Selected as 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow.
Maanasa Venkatesh, an MPH student concentrating in global health, has been named a 2015 Graduate Summer Fellow at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
The center, based on the Charles River Campus, conducts interdisciplinary and policy-relevant research on a wide range of issues that contribute to long-term improvements in the human condition.
Venkatesh will research how women in India communicate within their social networks regarding decisions about their sexual and reproductive health, and how current public health communication can be tailored to specifically target chief decision-makers within social networks.
Venkatesh was one of nine BU graduate students chosen as a summer fellow, all of whom represent various schools and departments from across the university, including Earth & Environment, Political Science, Public Health, Biology, Sociology, and Mathematics & Statistics.
Starting June 1, the fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House developing research papers to be considered for publication as part of the Pardee Center’s publication series.
In addition, fellows will participate in special programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning and will interact with Pardee Center faculty fellows and post-docs.
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