Raising Awareness about Global Health Issues and Developing Therapeutics Is the Mission of Knight-Hennessy Scholarship Recipient
Ten years ago, Kritika Singh, a Northeastern University graduate and Young Global Leader, heard for the first time the harrowing statistic that every minute a child somewhere dies from malaria. She was a sheltered high school student, she says, taking part in a summer internship at a Boston biotech company where she was assigned to a malaria research project. Since then, raising awareness of malaria and getting young people to care about global health issues have been among the ambitious career goals set by Singh, a first-generation Indian American.
