Indian-American appointed as White House fellow

Lalit K Jha

Washington, Jun 26 (PTI) An emerging Indian-American
leader in California, Anish Mahajan, has been nominated by US
First Lady Michelle Obama for the prestigious White House
Fellowship for the year 2009-2010.

34-year-old Mahajan, a health services researcher, is
the only Indian-American to figure in the list of 15
outstanding young men and women selected from across the
United States for this fellowship.

CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, was
the other Indian-American to have bagged this fellowship
earlier.

Mahajan was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and
completed a Master of Science in Health Services at UCLA.

He has led innovative research collaborations between
academic, government, and relevant stakeholder organisations
on an array of domestic and international health policy
issues.

"We are thrilled that these exceptional men and women
will be joining us here in Washington for the next year," said
Michelle Obama in a statement.

"The programme not only allows for a variety of
perspectives to come together, offering expertise and
experience to benefit the administration's efforts, but these
Fellows in turn carry what they've learned to their own
communities to benefit Americans far beyond the walls of the
White House," she said. PTI