Indrani Basu

Kaiser Family Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow

GlobalPost

Indrani Basu is a journalist at GlobalPost in Boston where she is a Kaiser Family Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow. She has previously worked as a senior correspondent with India's largest print newspaper, The Times of India, where she wrote about crime, human rights, gender issues and urban development. She has experience covering high-profile political scandals and multiple terror attacks in India. Her investigative reports have influenced and changed government policy in New Delhi.

She holds a masters degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an Inlaks Foundation Scholar and graduated with honors. She was named "Journalist of the Month" in March 2014 along with five of her colleagues at Columbia for launching a website focusing on the Indian National Elections. She is a newly-minted photographer.

At UN General Assembly, global health projects are big business (VIDEO)

Public-private partnerships are emerging as the preferred way to approach aid and development challenges.

At UN General Assembly, global health projects are big business (VIDEO)

Two Ebola vaccines for health care workers expected as soon as November

Two Ebola vaccines for health care workers expected as soon as November

The collective trauma of James Foley and Steven Sotloff’s deaths

The collective trauma of James Foley and Steven Sotloff’s deaths

Eating three large onions will not cure Ebola (and dispelling other myths)

Eating three large onions will not cure Ebola (and dispelling other myths)

How polio is crippling Pakistan

How polio is crippling Pakistan

Two of America's food giants commit to fighting climate change

Kellogg's and General Mills have made some industry-leading promises to reduce harmful greenhouse emissions. It's a start.

Two of America's food giants commit to fighting climate change

Doctors to Congress: Ebola will likely rage for a year or more

Experts believe the epidemic centered in West Africa is likely to kill many more people. Should the US have taken action sooner?

Doctors to Congress: Ebola will likely rage for a year or more

Africa’s to-do list for reducing chronic disease is long

Q&A with health researcher Tom Achoki: Better data on non-communicable diseases is needed most.

Africa’s to-do list for reducing chronic disease is long

Africa’s next big health challenge: non-communicable diseases

Though HIV/AIDS gets more attention, an increase in deaths from heart disease and diabetes threatens the continent's economic and social development.

Africa’s next big health challenge: non-communicable diseases

Here's what you need to know about #AIDS2014

Highlights from this year's 20th International AIDS conference, themed 'Stepping up the Pace' against HIV, via Storify.

Here's what you need to know about #AIDS2014

Two advances may pave new ways for combating malaria

GlaxoSmithKline has applied to license the world’s first malaria vaccine and researchers in Tanzania have developed a new model for testing malaria drugs in Africa.

Two advances may pave new ways for combating malaria

Cultural differences complicate Ebola treatment in West Africa

Distrust of Western medicine is fast becoming one of the biggest problems in dealing with the recent Ebola outbreak.

Cultural differences complicate Ebola treatment in West Africa

Red Cross worker in Gaza: 'The psychological wounds are many'

Q&A: Maria Cecilia Goin describes the mounting difficulties in providing aid to civilians in Gaza.

Red Cross worker in Gaza: 'The psychological wounds are many'

UN reports 21.8 million infants weren't vaccinated in 2013

Reducing this figure will require improving vaccine transportation and storage and rethinking aid, health experts say.

UN reports 21.8 million infants weren't vaccinated in 2013