Global Health Innovation Symposium

Harvard Global Health Innovation Cohort 2025

About the Symposium

- 2:00pm: Opening Remarks by GAMI Presidents
- 2:10pm: Keynote by Dr. Monica Agarwal
- 2:40pm: Judge Introductions
- 2:45pm: Poster Competition
- 4:15pm: Award Announcements
- 4:30pm: Closing Remarks

Harvard GAMI is an interdisciplinary student group that seeks to develop and implement accessible and socially impactful medical technologies for low resourced healthcare settings globally. Under the mentorship of Project Prana Foundation, GAMI student innovation teams are matched with industry partners/healthcare change-makers, and have been working on developing innovative solutions for critical global health challenges during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Read more about the projects here >

The symposium featured a poster walk-through and competition, to hear about student innovations, interact with prototypes, competitive judging and rigorous judge feedback, and have interesting conversations about the impact of groundbreaking technologies in healthcare!

Meet the Keynote Speaker

Dr. Monica Agarwal is an Assistant Professor at Duke University, jointly appointed in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and the Department of Computer Science. Her research focuses on improving methods and monitoring for clinical large language models (LLMs), understanding clinical human-AI interactions, developing smarter electronic health records, and advancing machine learning and natural language processing for women’s health.

She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where she was a member of the Clinical Machine Learning Group. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Agarwal is a co-founder of Layer Health, a company building intelligent infrastructure for healthcare.

Meet the Judges

DR. SHRIYA SRINIVASAN

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, BIONICS Lab at Harvard SEAS; GAMI Advisor, Founder of Project Prana Foundation
Dr. CAROL LUCEY

Associate Director of Programs at Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI)
RAJIB MONDAL

PhD Candidate at Harvard-MIT’s HST; MD Student; Alumn of Project Prana Foundation
SRAVANI ROYYURU

MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School; Director of Strategy at Project Prana Foundation; Former BCG Consultant

Global Health Innovation Awards

Winners were awarded a free team dinner, and will be invited to give an oral presentation/student keynote in GAMI’s/Project Prana’s future symposiums, bootcamps, and innovation speaker series.

TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE

ML Fracture Analysis
Advisor Affiliation: Beth Israel Hospital
Project Advisor: Kiran Agrawal-Harding
Student Innovators: Krishna Parvataneni (Lead), Khushi Kohli, Sraavya Sambara Alissia Di Maria
SOCIAL IMPACT

Homecare Delivery
Advisor Affiliation: Impetus Health
Project Advisor: T.R. Udayakumar
Student Innovators: David An (Lead), Vishnu Emani (lead), Janani Ramesh (mentor), Eshan Mehta, Muqing Bai, Kai Wong
BEST PRESENTATION

Blood Donation Chatbot
Advisor Affiliation: Damu Sasa
Project Advisor: Aaron Ogunde
Student innovators: David Kim (Lead) Amber Peng Amy Sirma
HONORABLE MENTION

Universal-Fit Prosthesis
Advisor Affiliation: Rise Bionics
Project Advisor: Arun Cherian
Student innovators: Arav Bhargava (Lead), Jenna Shoman, Benji Brenner, Michelle Yang, Christiana Foufas, Cecilia Wu