Niranjan is currently Chief of Staff, Office of the President, Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was formerly at SDG, a subsidiary of IMS Health, a strategy consulting firm. Niranjan was one 100 BioVision Nxt fellows chosen internationally by BioVision and Nextwave to attend the World Life Sciences Forum in 2003. He also served as a board member for YEA, a New England based nonprofit. Niranjan has worked with various volunteer organizations in the New England area and has served as an active member of the graduate student council and International Students Association at Dartmouth College, for which he was awarded the graduate student community award by the college. He was selected to be a 2007 Founding Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston. He was selected as the class day speaker for the Dartmouth Medical School graduation ceremony in 2004. He holds a PhD from Dartmouth Medical School, and MS and B Pharm degrees from BITS Pilani

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