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11. COVID-19 in India: Global View of the Crisis

20m · Post-Call: Frontline Health Stories · 01 Jan 20:00

Somya Bajaj, former Goldman Sachs analyst, she is currently appointed at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC, leading large scale infrastructure projects to develop the global economies of diverse regions to improve business growth focused in US and India.  Somya has worked with the Government of Brazil and the African Development Bank to increase investment in pharmaceutical manufacturing and make medicines affordable and accessible. Over her career, she has focused her work on the improvement of  the quality of health. She is the author of Their Way, The Highway which are personal accounts of the people she worked with across India.  As a co-founder of Citizens for Public Leadership, an NGO that trains the youth to engage in politics, she is determined to involve the brightest minds to ensure equitable access for the most vulnerable focused on health equity, economics, and education. Somya attended Princeton University for a Masters in Economics and Public Policy with focused interest in equitable access and education.  

Guests: Somya Bajaj, World Bank, Fmr. Goldman Sachs Analyst

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about, 

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