Prerna Singh is Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University, faculty fellow at Brown’s Watson Institute, and co-convener of the Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar in South Asian Politics. Singh’s Academy project seeks to explore why polities with similar epidemiological, demographic, and socioeconomic conditions have been characterized by strikingly different levels of effectiveness in countering equivalently severe challenges posed by a disease.

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