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Online Talk on Prospects for Higher Studies
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 04:30pm - 06:00pm
Lecture / Reading / Talk
Lecture / Reading / Talk
Link for the session: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Centre for Economics and Public Policy (CEPP) invites you to an online talk by Professor Monika Sawhney on prospects for higher studies in the US after graduation.
The key themes covered in this wide-ranging talk will include:
1) Prospects for higher studies and internships in the US after graduation.
2) Guidance to students on when to start the application process, some guidance on the Statement of Purpose (SoP), other aspects of a good application and how a graduate school admissions committee evaluates an application.
3) Other experiential learning opportunities, like online/offline summer schools and courses that are in demand.
4) Ways for students to collaborate in research with faculty abroad
Speaker: Prof. Monika Sawhney (Faculty (flame.edu.in))
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina in Charlotte, USA
Speaker's Bio:
Prof. Monika Sawhney is currently a tenured associate professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, USA. She is also associated with FLAME as a visiting faculty member (academic advisor). She serves as an affiliate faculty member with Africana Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and the School of Data Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC. She has also served as a clinical associate professor with Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine (Department of Cardiology Services).
Prof. Sawhney is an experienced health economist and outcomes researcher with a PhD in health care from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has more than 20 years of experience leading, directing, and collaborating on research assignments related to health economics, real-world evidence, epidemiology, health systems efficiency and efficacy, the burden of diseases and illnesses, quality of care, patient-reported outcomes, clinical trials, and outcomes research, with a primary focus on healthcare business and policy.
Prof. Sawhney has teaching, research, field, and program-related experiences in the varied areas of international and global public health in countries such as Austria, Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Poland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United States of America.
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