Md Haseen Akhtar
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships |
| Project Title: | Design and Development of Collapsible Sub-systems of the mobile Primary Health Centre (mPHC) for Low-resource Settings |
| Field of Study: | Public Health |
| Home Institution: | IIT, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
| Host Institution: | UC Berkeley , Berkeley, CA |
| Grant Start Month: | September 2023 |
| Duration of Grant: | Nine months |
Brief Bio:
Md. Haseen Akhtar is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship. His doctoral thesis focuses on design, development, and deployment of a cost-effective mobile Primary Health Centre (mPHC) for low-resource settings. His research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals, and he has presented at several national and international conferences. He is interested in sustainable and responsible design.
Mr. Akhtar holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, and a master’s degree in design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was the Gold Medalist of B.Arch. (2015-2020), was awarded the outstanding student award and was the recipient of four consecutive academic excellence scholarships (2016-2019) from the alumni association, RECAL of NIT Trichy. He is a registered architect with the Council of Architecture. He has an interest in design for society and enjoys traveling in the mountains and meeting people from various cultures.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research fellow, Mr. Akhtar is exploring design and development of collapsible sub-systems of mobile Primary Health Centre (mPHC) for low-resource settings. His focus is to design sub-systems that take up the least amount of space and are easily portable by increasing their collapsibility.