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This month we showcase our new faculty co-chair and executive director, a spotlight on Dr. Robert Bollinger, and the awardees of our 2022 Breakthrough Research Grant program.

We pleased to announce the 2022 awardees for GKII’s Breakthrough Research Grants Program! The Breakthrough Research Grants Program is designed to support JHU faculty pilot projects involving interdisciplinary collaborations with India-based research institutes.

“My career in India has pivoted multiple times because of need and opportunity.” Read more to learn about Dr. Bollinger’s past and current work spanning decades in India.

Sara Bennett, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health who focuses on health policy and systems in low and middle-income countries, has been appointed as the new faculty co-chair. Melody McCoy, former vice president of global engagement and communications for Jhpiego has been appointed as the institute’s inaugural executive director.

In this issue of JACC Advances, Dr. Jaideep Patel and his team evaluated the association of disaggregated Asian racial data as it relates to f obstructive coronary disease.

“We are far away” from the 2023 goal, says Anita Shet, GKII steering committee member and director of the Johns Hopkins Maternal and Child Health India program. “Now, it is a Herculean job to be able to catch up everyone who missed.” Check out the article in Nature to see what else she said about massive #measels outbreak in #India.