Anil Cacodcar

Biography

Anil A.S. Cacodcar, Lafayette, is a senior at Harvard University double majoring in Economics and Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology. His senior thesis investigates the role of fear in regulating human behaviors during epidemics by examining local news coverage of fentanyl and its relationship to overdose deaths. Anil is the current chair of the Harvard Public Opinion Project, where he leads a group of researchers producing the nation’s largest survey on the political attitudes of young Americans. He also volunteers with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless and a local homeless shelter. At Oxford, he proposes to complete an M.Phil. in Economics.