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Check out the latest Community Voices, with spotlights on the new Hopkins India Conference Hub, new hire Srishti Kapil, and School of Medicine Student Mihir Kumar.

The meeting introduced the Gupta Klinsky India Institute’s (GKII) Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel Awards program, highlighting its focus on empowering JHU master’s students to conduct impactful research and experiential learning in India.

With a background that spans journalism, filmmaking, and fiction writing, Srishti brings a storyteller’s heart and a strategist’s mind to her work as a new Communicatons Consultant for GKII. Srishti is a graduate of Delhi University and TISS and is passionate about using clear, creative communication to drive meaningful change. At GKII, she’s leading communications for the India RISE Fellowship and supporting broader communications goals.

Dr. Amita Gupta, GKII faculty co-chair and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins discussed the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) recent funding cuts to HIV clinical trial networks and their negative impact on global HIV research and treatment efforts. “[NIH has] come up with a policy that’s making it really difficult to maintain the integrity of the trial, and we’re trying our very best,” Dr. Gupta said. “But if we can’t keep staff and the lights on, then we’re going to have some real waste and that will just be a total tragedy.”

Dr. Amita Gupta addressed the NIH’s new policy banning ‘foreign subawards,’ which threatens to halt a $70 million tuberculosis drug trial involving nearly 6,000 participants across 13 countries. “Tuberculosis might seem far away [in the United States], but even a few infections can end up being very costly,” she said.

This article pulls take-aways from the geopolitics and India-US partnership panels, discussing how as conflicts escalate. Learn more about the increasing importance of the growing strategic and technological relationship between the United States and India.