Harman Boparai

GlobalPost

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.

America: What’s more harmful, pot use or incarceration?

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

American lives derailed by laws against cannabis possession.

June’s flash-floods in Uttarakand, India leave devastation akin to an inland tsunami

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

India’s economy is booming, but its children are dying

July 30, 2016Politics

Location matters for child health in India

July 30, 2016Politics

The royal baby and the twins of Panna

July 30, 2016Politics

The spool of thread that cost a child’s life

July 30, 2016Politics

In India’s Panna District, one in four women deliver their babies at home — often with tragic results.

Malnutrition is an unspoken diagnosis in India’s pediatric hospitals

July 30, 2016Politics

The children in India’s hospitals officially check in for a variety of reasons — diarrhea, pneumonia, skin disease. But most have one thing in common.

When pregnancy is a death sentence for women

July 30, 2016Politics

A physician-journalist reflects on the stubborn problem of maternal mortality around the world.

A common cause of blindness in India is preventable, but treatment is not always accessible

July 30, 2016Politics

Prescription eyeglasses can correct ‘refractive error,’ which causes blindness for nearly 8 million people worldwide.

When life-saving surgery turns life-threatening

July 30, 2016Politics

Of the 234 million major surgeries that occur around the world each year, 31 million lack a simple, but crucial, device to monitor blood oxygen levels.