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People To Know
Dana Ocampo
docampo@orl.ucla.edu
Resident Director
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Claire Ali-Khan
cali-khan@orl.ucla.edu
Assistant Resident Director
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Dr. Bharat Venkat
bvenkat@g.ucla.edu
Faculty-In-Residence
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Bharat grew up in Wisconsin and moved to California for the first time during college, earning his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. After spending time in New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, and Oregon, he returned to California to join UCLA's Institute for Society & Genetics (with joint appointments in History and Anthropology). In 2021, he published a book (At the Limits of Cure) about tuberculosis in India. Since then, he's been studying how climate change impacts human health through UCLA Heat Lab, an interdisciplinary, collaborative research team focused on thermal inequality. Bharat's partner Jonathan is a graphic designer and ceramist from São Paulo, Brazil. Their dog, Seven, loves living on the Hill, playing fetch, and barking at skateboards.
