Surgeon-author Atul Gawande warns of Trump-era damage to global health

USAID was gutted, but it’s not too late to save science, talent, and global health systems, the Indian American told Harvard Gazette in an interview.

Indian origin surgeon and author Atul Gawande. / Harvard Gazette

Indian origin surgeon and author Atul Gawande, born in Mumbai and raised in Ohio, issued a stark warning on Apr.28 about the lasting damage to the United States’ global health leadership following deep cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Gawande shared these remarks during a conversation with Harvard’s Marcia de Castro, speaking to the Harvard Gazette just three months after stepping down from his role as head of USAID’s Bureau for Global Health.

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