Indian-American selected for White House fellowship
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 26 June 2009, 23:00 IST   |    5 Comments
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Indian-American selected for White House fellowship
Bangalore: Anish Mahajan, an Indian-American intern and health services researcher has been appointed as one of the 15 persons to be a White House fellow this year. Mahajan, 34, an emerging leader in California, is the only Indian-American to figure in the prestigious list. The only other Indian-American to have made it to the list is CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, Sanjay Gupta. Mahajan was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and completed his Masters in Science in Health Services at UCLA. Mahajan has also previously served as a consultant to The Ford Foundation and RAND Corporation. The White House commenting on his selection said, "He has led innovative research collaborations between academic, government and relevant stakeholder organizations on an array of domestic and international health policy issues." At present, Mahajan is serving a two-year term as a publicly elected council member on a neighborhood council of Los Angeles. He is also the Vice-Chair on the council's Public Policy Committee. The White House Fellowships programme offers outstanding young people first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. This year's White House Fellows are from diverse professions like medicine, business, media and education.

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