Sitara’s project focuses on exploring the results of an oral health screening program for schoolchildren in Cambridge, and assessing how the program can be expanded. Sitara is an MPH student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her academic interests include program planning, implementation, and evaluation; health literacy; and reproductive health. She is pursuing Concentrations in Health Communication and Women, Gender, and Health at HSPH. Prior to starting at…
Through a mixed methods study and in collaboration with a community organization in Puerto Rico, Abrania’s research seeks to assess agricultural resources, social connectedness, and physiological stress after Hurricane Maria. Abrania is a doctoral student completing a degree in Population Health Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests seek to investigate the intersection of health, environmental sustainability, and human flourishing. Currently, her work integrates methods…
Alicia is communicating the health effects of PM2.5 to decision makers and wood burning stove owners, aiming to promote community-driven solutions within an EPA nonattainment area. Alicia is an MPH-65 Health Policy student from Norfolk, VA. She graduated with a BA from the University of Minnesota in 2015, and ultimately decided to pursue an MPH after working on prenatal substance use in the Deep South. Since coming to HSPH, she…
Monica’s project explores the model and implementation of Total Health, a CSR initiative by Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, that provides holistic health care to 60,000 people in Thavanampalle Mandal (Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India) starting from the birth, through their journey into childhood, adolescence, adulthood and in the latter years of lives. Monica is an MPH student from Indonesia, in Global Health and Population department. Her interests lie on the intersection…
Ned’s project involved mapping noncommunicable disease related deaths after Hurricane Maria to identify health systems failures and improve the resilience and preparedness of Dominican communities for future storm. Ned is an MPH student in Global Health, while also a global health fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital. Previously, he has worked in India, Palestine, Nepal, Laos, Malawi and the Navajo Nation. His research interests are in community preparedness and resilience in…
Urvashi’s project examines the effect of providing access to free fruits & vegetables through the service of a mobile produce market on dietary habits, health outcomes, and healthcare costs, as well as the ways in which the Greater Boston Food Bank might improve the accessibility, availability, and acceptability of the mobile produce market and the foods that it distributes. Urvashi is a master’s student in the Department of Social and…
Sian’s project aims to inform future policies by exploring what factors would motivate rural primary health care providers to take up artificial intelligence algorithms for better medical care. Sian is a doctoral student in the Global Health and Populations Department. He was trained as a family physician in Canada and is now interested in health systems policies, specifically around financial and behavioral interventions. He is also interested in medical education.
Kelsey’s project is with The Greater Boston Food Bank, where she is contributing to focus groups examining a mobile produce market initiative and examining data from a survey measuring hunger among food pantry users. Kelsey Vercammen is a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology. Her research portfolio focuses on nutritional epidemiology, with particular areas of interest including causes and points of intervention for obesity, as well as the role…
Wilfredo was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York with his family. He studied at New York University where he developed a passion for global health equity and decided he wanted to work to improve the lives of people living in underserved settings like the ones where he was from. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School and spent several years working in rural Haiti on efforts…
Penny Sun is a 2021 graduate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with an MPH in global health and concentrations in leadership studies and humanitarian, ethics, and human rights. At Harvard Chan, she also served as the 2020-2021 Diversity & Inclusion Advocate for the Student Association. She graduated magna cum laude from Williams College with a BA in biology and a concentration in public health. Afterwards, Penny…