University of Pennsylvania to organise conference for identifying, mitigating India's post-COVID growth key challenges

New Delhi: In a bid to identify and mitigate the key challenges in India's post-COVID growth, the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI) in association with the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) and Penn Global will organise the ‘Penn India Engagement Forum’ on January 5, 2023, in the national capital.

Some academic experts at the upcoming conference include- Ezekiel J Emanuel, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania K Srinath Reddy, Honorary Distinguished Professor, Public Health Foundation, Adjunct Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Penn, Pramath Sinha, Founder & Chairman, Harappa Education Erika H James, Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science

The forum will touch upon a host of issues in three comprehensive panel discussions including- Healthcare Reforms, Digitisation & Education and Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and India’s Economy.

''Similar to the rest of the world, India at present is staring at two major crises. One is to immediately address the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the second is to mitigate the long-term challenges of global climate change including the economic impact on the country,'' said Eswaran Sridharan, Academic Director and Chief Executive, UPIASI.