Career
His research and advocacy efforts focused on access to medicines in developing countries, health and human rights. He died of injuries from a motorcycle taxi accident in Uganda in 2010. An annual symposium at the University of Michigan honors his life"s work.
Sujal served as Associated Editor-in-Chief of the American Medical Student Association"s Global Pulse journal, on the Student Advisory Committee of the Global Health Education Consortium, on the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Advocacy Network Steering Committee of the American Medical Student Association, on the University of Michigan Center for Global Health"s Internal Advisory Council, on the Board of Trustees of the Uganda Village Project, and as chapter leader of the University of Michigan"s chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines.
Sujal"s scholarly work on health and human rights addressed cluster munitions. Sujal"s work in global health education addressed new technologies, ethics and professionalism, and access to scholarly research.
As an National Institutes of Health-Fogarty Clinical Scholar, Sujal"s research in Uganda focused on psycho-social rehabilitation of children affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and clinician knowledge of aging and Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
