Science and Technology: The Future of South Asia
9:00-9:45am | AI in South Asia: A Fireside Chat
Tarun Khanna, Faculty Director, LMSAI; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University; Principal Scientist and Director of AI for Social Good, Google Research
9:45-11:00am | Panel 1: Genetics and Medicine
David Reich, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Vijay Chandru, Visiting Scientist, Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Priya Moorjani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California
11:00-11:15am | Break
11:15am-12:00pm | Inside the “HUM SAB EK – We Are One” Exhibition
Jyoti Macwan, Secretary-General, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Harvard Graduate Students Hiteshree Das, MDes ’25, Kartikeya Bhatotia, MPP ’24, and Robert McCarthy, BA ’23
12:00-1:00pm Lunch and guided tour of the“HUM SAB EK – We Are One” Exhibition
1:00-2:15pm | Panel 2: Understanding Climate Change in South Asia
Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Harvard University
Ahmed Shaikh, Assistant Professor, Critical Care Institute, Mount Sinai, New York
Natalie Ayers, Research Affiliate and Data Science Intern at CrisisReady; Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University
Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
02:15-3:15pm | Panel 3: Empathy in Medicine
Vikram Patel, Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Bharat Vatwani, Co-founder, Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation
3:15-3:30pm | Break
3:30-5pm | Annual Harish C. Mahindra Lecture: Lessons from the Pandemic for Science and Global Health
Soumya Swaminathan, Former Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)
5:30pm: Reception with tea