Indrani Basu

Kaiser Family Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow

GlobalPost

Indrani Basu is a journalist at GlobalPost in Boston where she is a Kaiser Family Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow. She has previously worked as a senior correspondent with India's largest print newspaper, The Times of India, where she wrote about crime, human rights, gender issues and urban development. She has experience covering high-profile political scandals and multiple terror attacks in India. Her investigative reports have influenced and changed government policy in New Delhi.

She holds a masters degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an Inlaks Foundation Scholar and graduated with honors. She was named "Journalist of the Month" in March 2014 along with five of her colleagues at Columbia for launching a website focusing on the Indian National Elections. She is a newly-minted photographer.


UN reports 21.8 million infants weren’t vaccinated in 2013

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Reducing this figure will require improving vaccine transportation and storage and rethinking aid, health experts say.

Red Cross worker in Gaza: ‘The psychological wounds are many’

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Cultural differences complicate Ebola treatment in West Africa

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Two advances may pave new ways for combating malaria

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Africa’s next big health challenge: non-communicable diseases

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Though HIV/AIDS gets more attention, an increase in deaths from heart disease and diabetes threatens the continent’s economic and social development.

Africa’s to-do list for reducing chronic disease is long

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Q&A with health researcher Tom Achoki: Better data on non-communicable diseases is needed most.

Doctors to Congress: Ebola will likely rage for a year or more

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Experts believe the epidemic centered in West Africa is likely to kill many more people. Should the US have taken action sooner?

Two of America’s food giants commit to fighting climate change

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Kellogg’s and General Mills have made some industry-leading promises to reduce harmful greenhouse emissions. It’s a start.

How polio is crippling Pakistan

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The country is the worst-affected in the world, and doctors say now is the time to fight it.