Sujal M. Parikh (1985–2010) was an American global health advocate, University of Michigan medical student, and an NIH-Fogarty Clinical Research Scholar.
[1] His research and advocacy efforts focused on access to medicines in developing countries, health and human rights.
[3] Sujal served as Associated Editor-in-Chief of the American Medical Student Association's Global Pulse journal,[4] on the Student Advisory Committee of the Global Health Education Consortium,[5] on the AIDS Advocacy Network Steering Committee of the American Medical Student Association,[6] on the University of Michigan Center for Global Health's Internal Advisory Council,[7] on the Board of Trustees of the Uganda Village Project,[8] and as chapter leader of the University of Michigan's chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines.
[9] Sujal's scholarly work on health and human rights addressed cluster munitions and the death penalty.
[10][11] Sujal's work in global health education addressed new technologies,[12] ethics and professionalism,[13] and access to scholarly research.