Posted on April 21, 2004 at 3:41 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) senior Pranathi P. Lingam, 20, of Birmingham, has received the 2004-2005 Mabelle Arole Fellowship.

Lingam, a philosophy major and a student in the UAB Honors Program, will spend two months working at the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) in Jamkhed, Maharastra, in central India beginning in August. She is the daughter of Vijay and Syamala Lingam of Port Authur, Texas.

While in India, Lingam will take a course to learn about community-based health programming in a developing country. The course will be taught by CRHP clinic staff along with local villagers who were instrumental in establishing the CRHP. She also will attend rounds at the CRHP clinic, interact with village health workers and travel with a mobile health unit.

Lingam, who was recently named as the Outstanding Student in the UAB Department of Philosophy, also is a student of the Honors Program and the Early Medical Student Acceptance Program. Lingam plans to attend medical school in a year.

The Mabelle Arole Fellowship was established by the John Snow Research Institute and the American Medical Student Association in 2001 in memory of the late Dr. Mabelle Arole. Arole dedicated her life to improving the health of women and children in India. The CRHP was founded by the Arole family.