Prior Rose Service Learning Fellows
Thanh Mai Bercher
Thanh is a Masters student in Health and Social Behavior, focusing on the impact of community-led health services in low-resource settings- from reservations to refugee camps. Their research interests include sovereignty (individual, tribal, communal, political) and the impact of authoritative dynamics upon individual’s sense of agency. Thanh’s future work will remain rooted in organizing, with an emphasis on alternative land and funding structures that allow grassroots groups to assume direction…
Casey Dai
Casey Dai is a first-year, Master of Science student in the Department of Global Health and Population Sciences. Her research interests include climate change and environmental justice, social-cultural dynamics of infectious disease, and health systems resiliency. She hopes to work in the field of planetary health with the aim of strengthening community capacity to respond to ecological change and further climate mitigation, with a focus on measured co-benefits for health.…
Sabrina Ebengho
Sabrina Ebengho is a Master of Public Health candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She earned her bachelor’s degree in public health – global health from the University of Washington, specializing in community-based public health research and practice with a strong emphasis on equity. Sabrina’s background includes experience in health equity research, COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and HIV/TB service delivery. Her…
Lexi Farina
Lexi is an MPH-65 candidate in Nutrition with a Global Health Concentration. She is passionate about bridging the health and food systems to promote improved diets and food access, especially for children. Before starting her MPH, she worked at an international nonprofit, focusing on supporting strategic planning, financing, and translating nutrition data for decision-makers to develop multisectoral nutrition policies in East and West Africa. Lexi’s qualitative research project aims to…
Sappho Gilbert
Sappho Gilbert is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research foci encompass population nutrition, community and Indigenous health, food security, and climate change (with a primary focus on the Arctic). She earned her PhD at the Yale School of Public Health, Master’s in Public Health at Dartmouth College, and Bachelor of Science in biology (with a minor…
Se-In Kim
Se-In is a doctoral student in the Global Health and Population department with a specialization in Health Systems. Her research interest focuses on the measurement and improvement of health care quality, health equity, and program evaluation in low-income settings using econometric methods. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a manager for Korea International Cooperation Agency HQ and Ethiopia Office, where she managed multiple development programs including global…
Alexander Mellott
Alex is a current student in the Biostatistics SM80 program. He graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor’s in Mathematics, focusing in Statistics, and a minor in Music Composition. During his summers he has spent time in biostatistics and medicine, including undergoing EMT training, serving as a medical assistant, and working in research at the University of Iowa through the NIH-funded SIBS program. While at Vassar, Alex also acted as…
Makiko Mitsunami
Dr. Makiko Mitsunami is a postdoctoral research fellow in Nutrition and Environmental Health at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, working with Dr. Jorge E. Chavarro, Dr. Jaime E. Hart, and Dr. Shruthi Mahalingaiah to investigate the impact of diet, lifestyle and environmental factors on women’s and men’s reproductive health. She is a board-certificated obstetrician and gynecologist in Japan. She has established a delivery facility in a remote area, acquired…
Taylor Robinson
Taylor J. Robinson is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is also a T32 trainee at the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine. She earned her MPH concentrating in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She incorporates spatial, epidemiological, and environmental methods to study the…
Nalini Rohatgi
Nalini Rohatgi is an MPH-45 student in Health and Social Behavior at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She graduated from medical school at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India, and received pediatric residency training at the University of Connecticut and an allergy fellowship at National Jewish Health, Denver, Co. She is a board-certified allergist who owned and ran two productive offices in Tampa for 35 years…
Michelle Shah
Michelle Shah is an Indian paediatrician and lifestyle medicine diplomate, currently an MPH – 65 candidate in the Department of Nutrition with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. Michelle is passionate about addressing the double burden of nutrition in paediatric populations. Her future aspirations lie in the field of preventative paediatrics and lifestyle medicine. For her project, Michelle is working to implement nutritional and lifestyle medicine-based educational interventions in…
Lu Testa
Luke ‘Lu’ Testa (they/he) is an MPH-65 student in Health and Social Behavior concentrating in Population Mental Health. Lu is interested in the application of liberatory, queer-affirming forms of mental healthcare in community-based settings. Lu has researched best practices for mentoring incarcerated youth, reviewed QTPOC youth’s experiences within the mental healthcare system, facilitated various community support groups, and served on the City of Manchester Office of Youth Services’ Community Advisory…
Kieran Todd
Kieran P. Todd (they/them) is a third-year Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Their work is attached to the ways in which health and disease are the embodied experiences of racialized gender(ing) and sex(ing) through which structures of cissexism and anti-Blackness impact health. Currently, their research focuses on understanding and addressing structural determinants that…
Zhengyuan Wang
Zhengyuan Wang is a first-year Master of Science student in the Department of Environmental Health. During his undergraduate studies in marine sciences, he conducted research focusing on evaluating environmental stressors affecting aquaculture species. Now, he has broadened his scope to integrate exposure assessments, utilize epidemiological methods, and apply regulatory frameworks to address environmental issues that may threaten our health, especially in coastal areas vulnerable to climate change, marine pollution, and…
Fatou Wurie
Fatou Wurie, with 15 years in technology, gender equality, and health policy, drives social change. Starting in maternal health policy, she’s advised in six African countries and worked with the UN, UNICEF, and WHO Foundation on gender, youth, and public health emergencies. A TEDx speaker and Moth Storyteller, she’s contributed to the NYT bestseller ‘Occasional Magic’ and featured in “Design for Social Innovation.” Her work during the Ebola outbreak was…