Global Health Institute

Jaskeerat Kaur Thakral (C’25) is an undergraduate senior in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in biology on the pre-med track, with minors in medical humanities and in science, technology, and international affairs. Hailing from Bangkok, Thailand, Thakral is interested in a global perspective in health care and medicine and hopes to further explore the liminal space between interdisciplinary fields like anthropology, psychology, international relations, and medicine. These interdisciplinary global health interests led to Thakral’s independent research into the field of epidemic psychology, most recently culminating in a project investigating the sociocultural influences of psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in India, which was published in an IGI Global journal in February 2024. As a 2024-2025 Global Health Institute Student Fellow she will work with Dr. Deus Bazira.