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Shastri News - November/December 2009

Symposium in Sweden highlights Shastri Youth Intern’s research in India

Robin Lau is one of the Shastri Institute’s most recent Youth Interns. He has been working with a bi-national team of academics to study the future of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in India. Thanks in large part to the research he conducted in Chennai from September 2008 to February 2009, his research supervisors, Dr. Shanthi Johnson from the University of Regina and Dr. T.J. Kamalanabhan from IIT Madras, were able to present the India Healthy Life Expectancy Projection Model (IHLEPM) at an International Symposium for Health Information Management in Kalmar, Sweden in October 2009.


The study that Robin worked on sheds light into the population health measures needed to improve understanding of the determinants of health, to inform policy in the planning of health and social services, and to ensure the efficient allocation of resources. According to Dr. Johnson, Robin has proven to be an invaluable asset to the research team. He in-turn has gained a life-changing experience abroad that has him keen to return to India someday soon.

“I never thought I would ever go to India before I came across this internship,” admits Robin. “It seemed so different and there seemed to be so many obstacles in the way.” The internship experience may not have proven Robin wrong, but it did show him how much he could grow once he overcame those obstacles which included monsoon rains, tropical heat and the fact that in India you don’t get a lot of personal space.

Once he got over the culture shock and the elements, Robin found that he thrived in the research environment in which he was placed, where he had the opportunity to guide much of his own work. Robin was also grateful to have had the opportunity to share his internship experience with another Canadian intern, Amenda Kumar, who was working simultaneously on a different research project.

“The skills the interns have been able to develop and the changes I see in their perspectives on work and life upon their return to Canada is truly amazing,” says Dr. Shanthi Johnson. “Canada is multicultural and it is wonderful and reassuring to know that these youth interns will take the cross-cultural understandings into their future education, careers, and lives.”

Today, Robin Lau is working on a Ph.D. in Health Service and Policy Research at the University of Alberta. His time in India has increased his interest in Health Economics and Policy and has given him a more international perspective in that field. After experiencing the benefits of his internship, Robin would recommend studying in India to any Canadian student.

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