Satchit Balsari — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Co-developed mumbaiVOICES in 2006, a crowd-sourced online disaster-response analysis framework, a first in crisis mapping.
Developed EMcounter in 2007, an online disease surveillance tool successfully deployed at large mass gatherings in 2013 and 2015.
Co-developed the Mumbai Emergency Management Exercise, which was adopted by the National Disaster Management Authority of India.
Co-authored a 2018 study on Puerto Rico mortality after Hurricane Maria, which became Altemetric's most discussed academic paper.
Co-founded the annual Global Health Emergencies Course at Weill Cornell and the University of Colorado’s Global Health Foundations MOOC.

Biography

Satchit Balsari is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His inter-disciplinary interests encompass mobile health technology, disaster response, and population health, informed by his clinical practice in the US and fieldwork globally.

As chief of the Weill Cornell Global EM Division, Balsari oversaw multi-institutional partnerships with governments, UN agencies, and academia.