Kunal Sood
| Kunal Sood | |
|---|---|
 Kunal Sood at TEDxUNPlaza New York.jpg Kunal Sood at TEDxUNPlaza New York | |
| Born | October 17, 1977 Chennai, India |
| 🏡 Residence | San Francisco, United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Parsons School of Design California Institute of Integral Studies University of California Kellogg School of Management University of Pennsylvania |
| 💼 Occupation | Producer/Coach/Speaker |
| 📆 Years active | 1997–present |
| 👔 Employer | Global Health Sciences, University of California (Co-Principal investigator) India Forge (Executive Director) |
| 🏢 Organization | Woxsen, TEDxUNPlaza |
| Known for | UCSF Global Health Sciences (Lead Scientist) Co-Principal Investigator for the Harvard-UCSF Slum Health Study[1] TEDxSF Global Health Conference |
| Board member of | The Journal of Global Health, AAUCSF |
Kunal Sood is an executive coach and producer and a known global health expert specialized in global mental health and wellbeing using positive psychology.[2] During his career, he has been focused mainly on the entertainment, healthcare and wellness sectors. He has also served in management and executive roles at two multinational companies in India and the United States, India Forge and Town Sports International; and currently serves on the executive committee at TEDxSF, respectively.[3][4]
Early life and education[edit]
Kunal was born in Chennai, India in 1977. After finishing high school at United World College in Singapore and Saint Kentigern College in Auckland, New Zealand, he moved to the United States, where he earned his B.B.A. in Design Management at the Parsons School of Design in 2004.[5] Later, in 2010, he completed his MA in Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.[6] In 2011, he earned his MSc in Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2013, he finished M.B.A. in Marketing, General Management with a concentration on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.[7]
Work[edit]
Upon finishing his undergraduate studies at Parsons the New School for Design, Kunal worked in New York for two years at Town Sports International, also known as New York Sports Club (NYSC). In 2005 he returned to India to work in the family business India Forge. In addition to this he also served as a Clinical Associate at Chennai Kaliappa Hospital in India, with the renowned cardiologist, Dr. TJ Cherian, providing behavioral change and lifestyle modification counseling to underserved patients suffering from heart diseases, diabetes, obesity, and substance abuse.[8]
As of 2012, he serves as a visiting scholar at Partners in Urban Knowledge Action and Research PUKAR, where he works with Harvard, Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Ramnath Subbaraman, and UCSF Principal Investigator, Dr. Jess Ghannam, in conducting evidence-based research, training local staff and researchers to carry out key informant interviews, conduct focus groups, and analyze primary and secondary data as part of the Harvard-HSPH, New York University-NYU, Slum Health Project at PUKAR in Mumbai, India.[9][10][11] He is a member of the Advisory Board at The Journal of Global Health, an international student publication at Columbia University released biannually with the mission of facilitating dialogue among students at the medical, graduate, and undergraduate level on innovative solutions to interdisciplinary global health issues from a variety of academic, cultural, and geographic perspectives.[12]
Recently, he has worked as a Clinical Intern for the Institute for Health and Healing, as part of California Pacific Medical Center and conducted capstone research at UCSF Global Health Sciences at the University of California.[13]
Academic and Advisory Boards[edit]
Kunal serves as the Associate Dean of International Programs at the Woxsen School of Business, where he is developing a game-changing and internationally competitive curriculum for the next generation of business leaders in India.[14] He also serves as Advisory Board Member at Nexus India and the Alumni Association UCSF School of Medicine and is on the Trustee Committee for Hack Cancer to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.[15] He is a producer for the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN Global), and as an advisor to various start-ups in the Bay Area.
Conferences[edit]
On November 10, 2012, Kunal Sood produced and organized a global health focused conference with TEDxSF, held at UCSF Mission Bay, San Francisco, where he served on the Executive Committee of TEDx San Francisco. Kunal co-curated "7 Billion well" in collaboration with UCSF Global Health Sciences to stage first ever TEDx at the University of California San Francisco focused on re-imagining global health.[16][17] The conference's main event, named "7 Billion Well: Re-imagining Global Health", drew the best thought leaders in medical science, academia, entertainment and technology, bringing the latest multidisciplinary ideas in addressing the most pressing health issues in the modern world, with a goal of securing a new vision in treating the health for the whole population.[18][19][20] Kunal also invited Tanvi Shah, a popular Indian playback singer whose music apparently had a healing effect on an autistic child, to speek at the conference.[21]
In September 2013, Sood curated TEDxUNPlaza conference, an independent forum hosted at the United Nations under TED’s motto "Ideas Worth Spreading". The event was organized by the TEDx community with the support of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the United Nations Office for Partnerships, as a part of DESA’s effort to promote a vision for human progress that goes beyond promoting global agreements. The event was moderated by journalist Joris Luyendijk.[22] In the following week, he addressed to the United Nations General Assembly on the topic of sustainable development.[23][14] Harry Kraemer, Kellogg School of Management Professor of Management and Strategy, as well as an executive partner at Madison Dearborn Partners, was also featured at the conference, giving his four leadership principles he developed as chairman and CEO of the $9 billion global healthcare company Baxter International.[24]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Visiting Scholars from Other Institutions". PUKAR. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "Kin Global - 2012 Delegates". Kin Global. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "India Forge". Moneycontrol. September 10, 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "Kunal Sood". Zoominfo. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "Re:D - The Alumni Magazine of Parsons School of Design" (PDF). Parsons School of Design. Winter/Spring 2004. Retrieved 27 December 2012. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "CIIS Today - The Community Newsletter of California Institute of Integral Studies" (PDF). California Institute of Integral Studies. Fall 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "Kunal Sood". Global Health Sciences. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "GHS at University of California - Kunal Sood". University of California San Francisco. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "Pukar - Visiting Researchers". Pukar. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ↑ "UCSF - Board of Directors". UCSF. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ↑ Dr. Jess Ghannam at TEDxSF (7 Billion Well). San Francisco, United States: TEDxSF. 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "The Journal of Global Health" (PDF). Columbia University. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "Global Health Sciences - Kunal Sood". University of California San Francisco. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Aggarwal, Ashish (2 November 2013). "From true grit to being the change: The Journey of Kunal Sood". Your Story. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ↑ "Hack Cancer - Trustee Committee". Hack Cancer SF. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ↑ "Theme: 7 Billion Well: Planet Healthy". TED. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ↑ Kunal Sood (2012). Circle of Life (Kunal Sood Dedication): Lebo M. at TEDxSF (7 Billion Well). San Francisco, United States: TEDxSF. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "Healthy Dose: Expired Anti-Malarials Harm Nigerians". Impact. October 26, 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ↑ "Michele Barry, Deepak Chopra and Sir Richard Feachem - TEDxSF 7 Billion Well". TEDxSF. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ "When The World Takes Notice of Global Health". Naveen Jain. forbes. October 25, 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ↑ Shenoy, Sonali (7 February 2013). "Unwinding with Tanvi Shah". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ "TEDxUNPlaza". United Nations. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ↑ "Inaugural Meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development" (PDF). United Nations. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ↑ Rene, Brigitte; Dailing, Paul (19 September 2013). "Kellogg at TEDxUNPLAZA". Kellogg Scholl of Management. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
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