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Global Reach
Davis faculty and scholars have been deeply involved in work relating to India’s society and its
economy. Some examples:
• Davis has had, over the years, research collaborations with the Indian Institute of
Science, National Center for Biological Science, University of Hyderabad, Center for
Cellular and Molecular Biology, Osmania University, and the International Crops
Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Plant pathology professor
Douglas Cook’s lab has worked with Indian researchers on agricultural biotechnology
research in support of rural development.
• Dr. Satya Dandekar teaches microbiology and is conducting research into gastrointestinal
tissue as an early target of the HIV virus. She has established an international collaborative
research consortium in India with the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences at
New Delhi and two Indian NGOs in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh, where there
is a large rural population and high incidences of HIV infection. As director of developmental
core activities with the Northern California Center for AIDS research, she has
trained Indian researchers.
• Davis faculty members Ranjan Bose and Daniel Sperling prepared a 2001 report for
Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies, published by the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change, on strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New Delhi through
introduction of new technologies, increased mass transit, and a mix of alternative vehicles.
• Delhi University graduate Smriti Srinivas, now an associate professor of anthropology at
Davis, has written extensively on the transformation of spiritual memory and tradition,
cultural identity, and physical movement in the city of Bangalore as it evolves into
India’s high-tech city of the future.
• Within the Davis School of Law, professor Anupam Chander has focused his published
work on the trade impacts on India of intellectual property protection under the World
Trade Organization structure. Law professor Madhavi Sunder has examined the issue of
countries protecting their cultural industries as a form of intellectual property, as well as
the topic of women’s rights within Muslim communities.
UC San Francisco, with 19 graduate students from India and 106 visiting scholars, is
involved in a wide range of medical research relating to India—in HIV/AIDS treatment,
eye care, women’s health, and trauma care linked to earthquake and tsunami relief.
The CARE-India program developed at UCSF, for example, is a set of interactive computer
tools and self-testing programs that enable low-literacy international populations to determine
whether they may have HIV/AIDS or other sexually-transmitted or drug-related illnesses and to
obtain limited counseling through a network of interactive kiosks. This approach offers services
at more locations closer to patients, while offering privacy, uniform levels of service, lower
training costs and automated statistical reporting.
In 1997, the Francis I. Proctor Foundation, which funds eye disease research laboratories and
clinical facilities on the UCSF campus, expanded its programs for developing countries to include
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