Syeda will present her work with the tobacco control project. She will be speaking about the tobacco epidemic in India and the societal harms it causes as well as current solutions including existing policy. She will also speak about the tobacco control project, which is qualitative study on questions asked during the Rajya Sabha parliamentary sessions regarding tobacco. Because the internship will continue for another month, she will describe the analysis of content thus far. Additionally she will describe her experience at IPH.

Dr. Sunitha Srinivas will present a seminar based on her experiences at Rhodes University. We will have the opportunity to hear about ‘Service Learning and Community-Engaged Research: A Case Study of Pedagogical Progress in Health Promotion’.

Our guest speaker Prof. Kiran Nagaraj will introduce us to the Pharm. D program in India. He has finished his Master of Pharmacy Practice from JSS Mysore and PhD from Karpagam University. His research interests are in Public Health, Toxico-Vigilance and Geriatric Medicine. He will present a talk on the development of the Pharm.D program at KIMS.