Siddhesh (Sid) Zadey, BSMS, MS-GH

Preferred pronouns: He/him

Home Institution: Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC USA

Research/Fellowship/Job Site: Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC USA; Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR), Pune, India

Research Topic: Substance use, Global Surgery, Health Systems & Policy

Siddhesh (Sid) Zadey, BSMS, MS-GH

siddhesh.zadey@duke.edu

Sid Zadey is a Research Aide (Visiting) at the Duke GEMINI Research Center and leads the Data Innovation, Program Implementation, and Community Action (DIPICA) Observatory for Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Care. He is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health focusing on spatial and social epidemiology of alcohol use and violence and injury prevention.  He is a Co-founder of the non-profit think-and-do tank – Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR) based in India and an Adjunct Research Faculty at Dr. D. Y. Patil University, Pune, India. He has an integrated BSMS in Natural Sciences with a focus in Neuroscience from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India, and an MS in Global Health from the Duke Global Health Institute US. He has previously worked at the Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and has been trained at the Berenson Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School. At ASAR, he focuses on health systems modeling and health disparities. At Duke, he works on surgical care access in India and building the alcohol use behavioral phenotyping test (AUBPT) for testing in global populations. Currently, he serves as the Chair of the G4 Alliance Asia Working Group, a Fellow for the Lancet Citizens’ Commission for Reimagining India’s Health System, a Fellow of the Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition, and a member of the Drafting Committee for the Maharashtra State Mental Health Policy. He is a part of the Global Burden of Disease Collaborators Network, Mental Health Innovation Network, and Global Mental Health Action Network. In 2021, he served as a member of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics COVID-19 Task Force for School Reopening. His work has been published in The Lancet, JAMA, and BMJ family journals among others. He has written for Think Global Health, Harvard Public Health Magazine, BMJ Opinion, The Wire, The Hindu, and Hindustan Times. He was awarded the prestigious Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s Young Leader Award (under 30) in 2022 and was inducted into the inaugural cohort of ’40 under 40′ in Public Health Catalyst of the Boston Congress of Public Health.

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