Rising Star: Introducing Viha Vig, MBChB

The desire to do research was primal for Viha Vig, MBChB, who watched her father, a chemical engineer, develop water- and fire-proof material from the time she was a teenager in India. “My journey in research started because I wanted to do something similar. I wanted to find things that can be helpful and make them available to communities,” Vig said. She is in the Murray-to-Mountains Rural Generalist Intern Training Program, Victoria, Australia, and completed her MBChB at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2025.