Bio: Siddhesh is a Research Aide Sr. at Duke Surgery and a team co-leader for Bass Connections and Rhodes Information Initiative Data+ teams for ‘Gamifying risk identification alcohol use behaviors across countries and cultures’. His research topics include alcohol use risk assessment, global surgery, healthcare access, and policy.  Currently, Siddhesh is working on the PRACT study, Bass Connection – AUBPT, and Surgical care in India. His research focuses on using quantitative approaches including geospatial and statistical analyses, and computational modeling to better understand health systems and the impact of health interventions.

Siddhesh completed his Bachelor of Science Master of Science (BSMS) dual degree program at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune in 2018 as a Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellow. For his Master’s thesis, he worked as a Khorana Scholar at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone on non-invasive brain stimulation markers for cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease. He completed a second Master’s degree from the Duke Global Health Institute in 2021, working with Dr. Joao Vissoci on mapping surgical care access in rural India where he was awarded the Dean’s Research Award for Master’s Students for 2020-21.

Siddhesh is the co-founder (https://www.asarforindia.org/founders) of the non-profit research & advocacy group – Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR) based in India. Further, he was a member of the ‘Indian Academy of Pediatrics COVID-19 Task Force for School Reopening’ in 2021 and is currently a Fellow for the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on ‘Reimagining India’s Health System’ working with the Human Resources Workstream. He is a permanent council member of the Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma, and Anaesthesia Care (G4 Alliance) and a part of the Global Burden of Disease Collaborators Network, Mental Health Innovation Network, and Global Mental Health Action Network. Siddhesh was recently awarded the prestigious Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s Dr. Judy Wasserheit Young Leader Award (under 30) for 2022 (https://www.cugh.org/blog/congratulations-to-the-cugh-2022-leadership-awardees/) & inducted into the inaugural cohort of ’40 under 40′ in Public Health of the Boston Congress of Public Health & HPHR Journal (https://bcph.org/40under40/). In his free time he likes to ride his bike, write fiction and sing.