In her address to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Chiefs of Defense (CHOD) Conference in Fiji on Wednesday, August 16, 2023, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power said, "Investments we make in one country can often yield benefits in others. "Take food security. In India, starting in...
USAID and Mass General's Camtech Host Med-Tech "Hackathon" in Bangalore
Two day intense programming projects or "hackathons" are quite common in the software business, but India hosted a first-of-a-kind medical device and healthcare project this year. As part of a new, USAID-funded partnership with GE Healthcare India and Glocal Healthcare, CAMTech’s first ever healthcare Hackathon took place at GE’s R&D...
My undergraduate reunion in Kanpur, India
I just returned from re-union of my undergraduate class in Kanpur, India. Over twenty of us from both the USA and India showed up, several with familes. A photo of a local newspaper article about the re-union is at the bottom of this article. As a college, my trans-formative years...