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[ad_1] Indian-born physician Celine Gounder will join US President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force. Gounder, who is an assistant professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, has Tamil roots. His father, Dr. Raj Natarajan Gounder, hails from the village of Modakurichi in Herod and moved to the United …

[ad_1] In a tweet, Tamil-born Dr. Celine said she kept her caste name, as “it’s part of my history and identity, even if part of that history is painful.” Tamil Prime Minister Nadu Edappadi K Palaniswami and opposition party leader MK Stalin gathered Tuesday to congratulate and wish Indian-born epidemiologist …