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Harman Boparai

Harman Boparai is a Kaiser Health Reporting Fellow at GlobalPost this summer. He went to medical school in his hometown of Amritsar, Punjab in India and did his rotations at the medical schools of Harvard, Yale and Cornell Universities. Harman worked for a year as a doctor in India before acquiring his master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism at Columbia University, New York. He is interested in being a doctor/journalist, reporting on global health, healthcare systems, religion, human rights, conflicts and natural disasters.
Lifestyle
America: What’s more harmful, pot use or incarceration?
Business, Economics and Jobs
June’s flash-floods in Uttarakand, India leave devastation akin to an inland tsunami
Politics
India’s economy is booming, but its children are dying
Politics
Location matters for child health in India
Politics
The royal baby and the twins of Panna
Politics
The spool of thread that cost a child’s life
Politics
Malnutrition is an unspoken diagnosis in India’s pediatric hospitals
Politics
When pregnancy is a death sentence for women
Politics
A common cause of blindness in India is preventable, but treatment is not always accessible
Politics
When life-saving surgery turns life-threatening
Politics
Heroin epidemic takes hold of people—and politics—in India’s Punjab state