Back in, ooh, 2001, Turnstone’s Creative Director wrote a profile of MIT’s Media Lab in India, for an ancient relic publication of the dot com boom (remember ‘e-Design’?). The Lab in India was a roving research unit that sent its grads from the East coast out even further east (to the Subcontinent) to work their engineering magic.
Researching that article, introduced us to the oh-so-not-pointlessly-overeducated Harvard MD/MIT Media Lab researcher, (now Dr) Vikram Sheel Kumar. A co-founder at Dimagi, he has long been doing incredible work developing mobile medical diagnostic systems for India, Southern Africa and elsewhere, places where healthcare in the field really might mean in a field.
He’s now the medic behind a new column in the recently launched Indian edition of Forbes.com, and in his words, “If you have a nagging health question you want answered that could interest a couple million others, let me know and I’ll try to learn something for all of us.”
