Dr Chhabria is from northeastern Pennsylvania, where she is currently a fourth-year medical student at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. She completed her B.S. in International Health at Georgetown University, where her senior thesis research involved a mixed-methods geographic analysis of factors driving adolescent pregnancy in Southern Ghana. She completed her MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Global Health and Population with dual concentrations in Obesity Epidemiology & Prevention and Nutrition & Global Health. Her practicum research with RTI International involved incorporating the effects of COVID-19 on low- and middle-income nations into economic models estimating the growing costs of obesity worldwide. During her MPH, she was also a Research Assistant for the Health Systems Innovation Lab, working with The Global Collaborative for Changing Diabetes in Children team to scope and build capacity for information systems for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus globally. She is deeply passionate about improving clinical patient care and global health systems for non-communicable diseases, with a special interest in obesity and its comorbidities. She hopes to further her medical training in Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics and work as a clinician, researcher and advocate in the field of Obesity Medicine.
