A bold new chapter begins for Hopkins and India
The Johns Hopkins India Institute leverages 90 years of groundbreaking work in the South Asian country to tackle health, education, and economic challenges worldwide
By
Rich Shea
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Published
April 26, 2021
In 2004, Amita Gupta, then a Hopkins infectious diseases fellow, was conducting research in a crowded clinic in Pune, a sprawling city in western India roughly 90 miles south of Mumbai. A second-generation Indian American, Gupta spent many childhood vacations in various parts of the country, visiting with extended family. This time, though, she was focused on finding ways to surmount a huge challenge: the transmission, via breastfeeding, of HIV from mothers to their babies. Then, unexpectedly, another issue came to Gupta's attention.