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Neil Gupta was a Hart Fellow in Brazil from 2002-03. He spent the
first half of his fellowship conducting research on tuberculosis at Núcleo
de Doenças Infecciosas (NDI), a government-funded hospital in Vitória, Brazil.
Doctors at NDI introduced Neil Gupta to Assistência Domiciliar Terapêutica
(ADT), an independent NGO that provides holistic care to disabled HIV patients.
Neil Gupta spent the latter half of his fellowship designing and conducting a
study assessing the drug adherence rates of people assisted by ADT. Throughout
his fellowship, Neil Gupta spent his off-hours working with medical students
from the Universidade Federal de Espírito Santo (UFES) documenting rural health
care through photography and created a slide show that was presented to medical
students in Austria. Since returning to the US, Neil Gupta has given presentations
to students and academics at Duke University on his research, "Combination Therapy:
How home-based care improves medication adherence for HIV+ patients in Brazil" and
has submitted his research paper to a Brazilian medical conference.
Neil graduated from Duke in 2002 after completing an independent curriculum in
cognitive neuroscience. He is currently attending medical school at the University
of Pennsylvania, spending his first summer conducting a research study on child
malnutrition in Senegal.
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