We need to understand our own ethnic genome better: Albright's Mehul Mehta

In an interview, Mehta tells Anjuli Bhargava that picking up mutations before a spike in numbers is crucial and genomics is the future of medicine

Physician and Chief Medical Officer at the Albright Stonebridge (founded by former US secretary Madeleine Albright) group in Boston, Dr Mehul Mehta’s work over the last 23 years has spanned over 33 countries, developing new hospitals, reforming existing healthcare delivery systems, building medical educational institutions and establishing research ecosystems  and entities. He’s carried out this work through leadership positions at Harvard Medical International and at Mass General-Brigham Health International.

Through the pandemic, Dr Mehta has steadily done his bit to counter the “pandemic of misinformation”, through a regular COVID update with groups of around 50-100 participants in India, going back to