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Education

• Ph.D. in Health Informatics2021–Aug. 2026 (expected)
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC
  Advisor: Emily Pfaff
• M.S. in Global Health and Population2015–2017
  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · Boston, MA
  Concentration: Maternal and Child Health. Advisor: Wafaie Fawzi
• B.A. Integrative Biology; B.Sc. Nutritional Sciences and Molecular Toxicology2011–2015
  University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Dissertation

“Estimating Environmental Health Impacts Using Electronic Health Records: Linked Data for Clinical and Epidemiological Research”
Committee: Emily Pfaff (Chair), Barbara Entwisle, Miyuki Hino, Anna Kahkoska, Cavin Ward-Caviness

Positions

Current

• Graduate Research Assistant2026–present
  UNC Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC
• Graduate Research Assistant2024–present
  Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC
• Graduate Research Assistant2023–present
  NC TraCS Institute, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC
• Research Affiliate2022–present
  Hino Lab, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC
• Graduate Research Assistant2021–present
  Pfaff Lab, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC

Honors

• Award for Leadership in Refugee and Migrant Health2020
  Global Health and Leadership Conference, Harvard University
• Julie E. Henry Fund for Maternal and Child Health2015–2017
  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• First Place, Scaling-Up category2015
  Big Ideas @ Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley
• First Place, Global Health category2013
  Big Ideas @ Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley

Presentations

Refereed oral

1. “At the Intersection of Health and Place: Integrating Electronic Health Records with Geospatial Data for Research, Practice, and Policy.” Panel Presentation at the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Atlanta, GA. (2025)
2. “Patient Addresses in Electronic Health Records: New Source of Data on Spatial Mobility?” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. (2025)
3. “From Complex to Comprehensible: A TF-IDF Approach for Hierarchical Aggregation of Clinical Conditions in SNOMED CT.” American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit, Pittsburgh, PA. (2025)
4. “Effectiveness of Early Warnings on Household Evacuation During the 2018 Floods in Kerala, India.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH. (2024)
5. “Considerations for long-COVID research using real-world data.” Panel Presentation at the American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit, Seattle, WA. (2023)
6. “A Federated, API-enabled Architecture for Personal Health Records in India.” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health–State of Global Health Symposium, Boston, MA. (2019)
7. “A Community-Based Intervention to Reduce Tooth Decay and Malnutrition in Mumbai, India: One Year Follow-up.” Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, San Francisco, CA. (2016)

Refereed posters

1. “Harnessing Electronic Health Record data for Causal Inference through Target Trial Emulation: lessons from N3C-RECOVER.” American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, New Orleans, LA. (2023)
2. “A Multi-Component Intervention to Reduce Early Childhood Caries and Child Malnutrition in Mumbai, India.” University of California Global Health Institute, Berkeley, CA. (2015)
3. “Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Children's Oral Health and Malnutrition in Nepal.” University of California Global Health Day, Davis, CA. (2014)

Invited workshops & presentations

1. “Patient Addresses in Electronic Health Records: New Source of Data on Spatial Mobility?” Migration Working Group, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. (2026)
2. “Effectiveness of Paxlovid in Protecting Against Long COVID: EHR Insights.” RECOVER Research Review (R3) Seminar Series, The RECOVER Initiative — United States National Institutes of Health, Virtual. (2025)
3. Scholarly Working Group on Climate Change, War, and Health. Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (2025)
4. “Household Evacuation and Trust — Lessons in Disaster Response from the 2018 Floods in Kerala, India.” Annual Earth Week Research Symposium, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. (2024)
5. Virtual Roundtable on NOAA's Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaigns. NOAA Southeast Regional Climate Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. (2023)
6. Workshop on Climate Change in South Asia. The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (2023)
7. “Safe, Responsible, Fair, and Equitable Use of Human Mobility Data.” The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (2021)
8. National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) Stakeholder Consultation. National Health Authority, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India. (2020)
9. BRAC–Harvard Digital Health Convening. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. (2020)
10. Nammal Namukkayi: Thematic Consultation Workshop with Technical Experts. Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, Govt. of Kerala, Kerala, India. (2020)
11. Human Rights at a Crossroad: Mass Migration. Human Rights Symposium, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA. (2019)
12. “The EHR-lite toolkit: an open-source product for primary care centers in India.” Powering the PHR Conference, Bangalore, India. (2019)
13. “The State of Health Data in Syria: Building Analytical Pipelines for the Apocalypse.” The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Academic Ventures Accelerator Workshop, Cambridge, MA. (2018)
14. Protecting Health Care in Armed Conflict Roundtable. 72nd United Nations General Assembly, High-level Side Event, New York, NY. (2017)

Open data

• Rohingya Focus Group Discussions – 20182019
  Harvard Dataverse · doi:10.7910/DVN/MPAGLN
• Kumbh Mela 2015 Jana Swasthya Project2019
  Harvard Dataverse · doi:10.7910/DVN/WCEWNR
• Data Mapping the Indian Health System2019
  Harvard Dataverse · doi:10.7910/DVN/BD6UUN
• The Impact of Statelessness – 20152018
  Harvard Dataverse · doi:10.7910/DVN/EMEVSX
• Rohingya Needs Assessment – 20172018
  Harvard Dataverse · doi:10.7910/DVN/WMFZHM

Teaching

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Guest Lecturer. SOCI 832: Migration Seminar, Spring 2025, Fall 2025
• Guest Lecturer. CHIP 690-295: Foundations of Clinical Data Science, 2024, 2025
• Guest Lecturer. SOCI 950: Computational Social Science, 2022, 2025
• Lead Instructor. ENABLE, Carolina Health Informatics Program, 2024
• Lead Instructor. DataAware, Carolina Health Informatics Program, 2023

Harvard University

• Instructor. Harvard FXB Child Protection Executive Education Course, 2019
• Guest Lecturer. ID 205: Societal Response to Disaster and War, 2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Guest Lecturer. HST.936: Leveraging Data Science in Global Health, 2019
• Course Project Mentor. HST.936: Leveraging Data Science in Global Health, 2019

University of California, Berkeley

• Undergraduate Instructor. Biology 1B: General Biology, 2013

Service

Ad-hoc Journal Reviewer

• JMIR mHealth and uHealth
• JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
• JMIR Research Protocols
• Journal of Health and Human Rights
• Journal of Medical Internet Research
• PLOS Digital Health

Conference Abstract Reviewer

• American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, 2023

Grant Reviewer

• Research, Internship, and Language Studies Grant, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, 2019–2021

University Service

• Co-Chair, Student Committee, Carolina Health Informatics Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023–present
• Mentor, MIT COVID-19 Challenge India, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
• Lead, Public Health Information Technology Hackathon, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2016

Memberships

• Member, Scholarly Working Group on Climate Change, War, and Health, Harvard Global Health Institute, 2024–present
• Member, Migration Working Group, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024–present
• Member, Population Association of America, 2021–present
• Member, American Medical Informatics Association, 2021–present
• Collaborator, OpenDP, Harvard University Privacy Tools Project, 2020–present
• Member, Harvard Health Data Working Group, Harvard University, 2017–2019
• Member, International Scholars Working Group and Civil and Human Rights Committee, Harvard University, 2015–2017

Languages

Proficient in English, Hindi and Kutchi. Working knowledge of Spanish.