He received his undergraduate degree from MIT before completing a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford. He received his MD and PhD in epidemiology at Yale and is board certified in internal medicine. Dr. Basu’s research interests focus on global development and human health, and include the use of econometrics and simulation models to study how socioeconomic changes and social policy interventions affect primary disease risk among low-income populations. At Stanford, Dr. Basu is a Senior Fellow at the Center of Innovation in Global Health, Co-Director of the Health Disparities Group at the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, and a Member of the Child Health Research Institute. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles in leading medical journals and has served as an advisor to UNICEF and the World Health Organization.