By Telangana Today
Hyderabad: Pranav S, a final-year student of the Integrated MA in Economics program at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been selected for the highly competitive Future Research Talent (FRT) program at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra.
Currently based at ANU, he is undertaking an 11-week research project under this scholarship, which aims to foster research collaboration and academic excellence among outstanding students from top Indian institutions.
As part of the FRT program, he is working on a project titled 鈥淓arly Childhood Shocks and Their Impact on Healthy Ageing鈥 at the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, ANU.
His research explores the long-term effects of early life adversities, ranging from caste-based discrimination & natural disasters to social policy interventions, on later-life health outcomes, specifically in Indian context. The study is supervised by Dr. My Tran & Dr. Jinhu Li, renowned researchers in the field of public health & life course epidemiology.