Dr Akoi is an MPH-Health Policy candidate at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Prior to Chan, Deng was finalizing an Orthopedic Surgery residency at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Deng holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Nairobi. He has previously worked within the public and private hospital systems in Kenya and South Sudan.
Meghna Raman is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is passionate about building context sensitive health systems and leading systemic organizational change, especially when designing for low- and middle-income countries, which are often strained for resources. Her academic background is in engineering, business, and public health. She holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering and an MBA in Marketing and Strategy…
Alex Lebroski is a Harvard graduate student at the School of Public Health studying Global Health. Native to California, he loves surfing, dancing, and creating content. Alex is very passionate in his arts and is very versatile in photography, videography, creative writing, and music composition. Some of his long-term projects include providing mentorship to K-12 students in under-resourced communities, bridging the gaps between health and technology, and also redistributing resources…
Maira Owais is currently a third year student studying in the Departments of Biology and Economics at Amherst College. Her academic and career interest are directed towards public health and global policy, with a particular focus on studying healthcare from an economic perspective and using the framework of health economics to better understand the intricacies of system structures. She has been working with the Health Systems Innovation Lab over the…
Dr Leary is a board-certified emergency medicine doctor. He practices at Cambridge Hospital and Everett Hospital with Cambridge Health Alliance. He is studying design frameworks for health systems innovation as part of his MPH practicum with Prof. Atun at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is passionate about improving rural healthcare,…
I read Natural Sciences – Physiological Sciences at the University of Oxford before studying Medicine at the University of Cambridge. I completed my intern training in Cambridge and then moved to London where I am a Trauma and Orthopaedic resident on the Imperial College London (North West Thames) rotation. I am currently taking a year out of training to read a Master of Public Health at Harvard specializing in quantitative…
Varshini is a junior at Harvard College studying Neuroscience and Social Anthropology with a secondary in global health and health policy. She is very interested in the intersection of social change and global health. She is very excited to be working with the Health Systems Innovation Lab, and believes that the lab is a unique space to think about incubation and global health innovation. At Harvard, she is a Mellon Mays Fellow…
Dr Abuhaimed, from Saudi Arabia, is currently in the MPH-45 Global Health Program. Before the program, he worked under the Clinical Leadership Department in the Center for Health Insurance and Purchasing in Saudi Arabia as a project manager in population health management and precision health, facilitating the national strategy and roadmap design and development. He has also engaged in the Public Health response for COVID-19 and MERS-CoV, designing testing and…
Raghav was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. His family moved to the United States in his infancy and he was raised in California. He had his undergraduate education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington where he majored in Microbiology and minored in global health. He got his Master’s in Physiology at Georgetown University. Currently, he works in Clinical Research at the GI department at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he…
Dr. Rômulo Pinto Silva is a physician specializing in psychiatry. He graduated from Universidade Federal da Paraíba and is currently undertaking his residency at Hospital Nina Rodrigues. His academic interests include psychiatry, epidemiology, and open data. He collaborates with the Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab on the Data Collaborative Research Initiative – Latin America & Caribbean region.
