You are cordially invited for the end of research presentation by:

Ms. Sharanya Sriram, Visiting Scholar, Fulbright-Nehru Researcher 2025-26

Under the Division of Health Humanities, St. John’s Research Institute and the Department of Community Health, St. John’s Medical College

On the topic: “Type 2 diabetes management as a negotiation between biomedical narratives and lived realities in Bengaluru district, Karnataka, India”

Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Time: 10 AM to 11:30 AM

Venue: Ground Floor Conference Hall, Academic Block, SJRI

ALL ARE WELCOME!    

About Visiting Scholar, Fulbright-Nehru Researcher: Sharanya Sriram graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California–San Diego (UCSD) in 2024. As an undergraduate, she conducted research on the immune environment of pancreatic islets in diet-induced obesity and also completed a senior honors thesis on ribosomal protein differences in alpha and beta cells to investigate stress susceptibility in diabetes pathogenesis. Her global health work spans refugee medicine in the U.S.-Mexico border as well as indigenous healing traditions in Bali, Indonesia.

 As a 2025-26 Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Fellow, Sharanya has collaborated with the Division of Health Humanities at SJRI and the Department of Community Health at SJMC to conduct a qualitative ethnographic research examining patient and healthcare practitioner perspectives towards the role of social support within type 2 diabetes management in Bengaluru. By centering lived experience and informal support networks, her study seeks to uncover psychosocial dimensions of diabetes care in South India which can support creation of context-specific treatment plans.