Sid Zādéy

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ABOUT SID ZĀDÉY

Siddhesh (Sid) Zadey is a Doctoral Student in Epidemiology at Columbia University with Graduate Research Assistantship at the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP). He is interested in exploring how alcohol use, self-harm behaviors, and firearm violence are related. He is a Co-founder of the non-profit think-and-do tank - Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR) based in India, a Research Affiliate for Global Surgery at the Duke GEMINI Research Center, and an Adjunct Research Faculty at Dr. D. Y. Patil University, Pune, India. He has an integrated BSMS in Natural Sciences with a focus in Neuroscience from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India, and an MS in Global Health from the Duke Global Health Institute US. He has previously worked at the Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and has been trained at the Berenson Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School. At ASAR, he focuses on health systems modeling and population-level health disparities. At Duke, he worked on investigating access to surgery in rural India, low-cost gasless laparoscopy innovations in low-income countries, and building the alcohol use behavioral phenotyping test (AUBPT) for testing in global populations. Currently, he serves as the Chair of the G4 Alliance Asia Working Group, a Fellow for the Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centred Health System for India, a Fellow of the Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition, and a member of the Drafting Committee for the Maharashtra State Mental Health Policy. He is a part of the Global Burden of Disease Collaborators Network, Mental Health Innovation Network, and Global Mental Health Action Network. In 2021, he served as a member of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics COVID-19 Task Force for School Reopening. His work has been published in The Lancet, JAMA Surgery, Lancet Global Health, Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia, BMJ Global Health, and World Journal of Surgery among others. He has written for Think Global Health, Harvard Public Health Magazine, BMJ Opinion, The Wire, The Hindu, and Hindustan Times. He was awarded the prestigious Consortium of Universities for Global Health\'s Young Leader Award (under 30) in 2022 and was inducted into the inaugural cohort of \'40 under 40\' in Public Health Catalyst of the Boston Congress of Public Health.In his free time, he writes at - https://siza.substack.com.