“My contribution in education on this campus is to remind students that unless you engage and get your hands dirty, you cannot understand and unravel the complexity of the problems that we face in health equity, in education equity, and in the context of our environmental challenges,” Prakash said. “The common principle behind this is learning to listen and embedding yourself in a context. You have to solve a problem for one person before you’re going to solve a problem for 100 people, before you’re going to solve a problem for an entire village.”