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>> Just finishing up our trip here in India.
I've been here for the last week.
Spending time at the Public Health Foundation
of India always gives me great hope.
They're making huge strides
in improving public health in India.
There's a vision for accomplishing that.
They've assembled an incredible group
of young passionate professionals who are devoted
to improving public health; at the same time,
the challenges are stark.
>> Although there are vast intellectual resources
and aligned disciplines like statistics and economics,
bio statistics is a relatively new discipline in this country
and I feel that as a bio statistician, I can contribute
in a way that could ultimately improve our understanding
and control of the public health burden of cancer in India.
>> India's always a fascinating place
and I visited many times before
but this trip is actually quite rewarding
because it gave me the chance to really get
to know what the University of Michigan and its School
of Public Health has to offer.
>> The most striking thing for me in visiting India,
even though I've been here several times it's still
striking every visit, is the great disparities you find
between the rich and the poor in this country.
You'll see very tall hotel chains right next door
to vast slums where there's intense poverty.
>> We spent an afternoon at an urban community center,
which is dramatically under resourced.
We met with a doctor who was seeing 150 patients a day
with too little time, too little money.
There's an inpatient facility with children
who are still being hospitalized with basic gastroenteritis
and dysentery which is easily preventable with a vaccine.
28 million children born each year
in India remains a huge challenge
in providing standard core public health services
to those kids needs to be a priority,
not only for India but for the world.
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