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There was also no let up in his summer holidays, as he was always volunteering overseas; helping to fight malaria in Gambia, tackling tuberculosis in Peru and child poverty in India.
Narasimhan, 41, doctor from Harvard Medical School, is a second generation immigrant in the US. His parents moved there from Tamil Nadu in the 1970s.
Narasimhan knows this well. As age 20, Narasimhan took time off of college, to work with the Red Cross in Gambia.
His mother, Gira Narasimhan, a former nuclear engineer for Public Service Electric & Gas, is a lecturer in physics at Burlington County Community College in Pemberton, N.J. His father is the vice president for research and development at the Hoeganaes Corporation, a supplier and developer of industrial raw materials, in Cinnaminson, N.J.
I went to the University of Chicago and did pre-med. Then for my junior year of college I went to Gambia where I worked with the Red Cross in malaria control. That was my first exposure to public health.
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