PEOPLE
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
JENNIFER J. PRAH
Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and the Perelman School of Medicine.
CURRENT RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
[BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA]
EUJINY CHO
Current University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student.
ABIGAIL REID
Current University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, CSC Academic All-District, Academic All-Ivy.
JIAYI XU
Current University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student.
CURRENT DOCTORAL & MEDICAL STUDENTS AND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS & RESIDENTS
MARION COSTE
Former Aix-Marseille University doctoral student. Post Doc Researcher at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France.
JORDAN LIU
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Projects for Progress 2021 Awardee. Current Columbia University medical student.
NAOMIE SHEMBO
Former Brown Univeristy undergraduate and medical student. Current University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine resident in Psychiatry.
LEYI “JOY” ZHOU
Former University of Pennsylvania graduate student, SP2 Porter Family Student Fellow. Current UC Berkeley, School of Social Welfare doctoral student.
FORMER RESEARCH AND Teaching ASSISTANTS
JARRAD AGUIRRE
Former Yale University undergraduate student. Former Stanford University medical and graduate student. Rhodes Scholar. Current Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at Lyell.
JADE AKHRAS
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Current Consultant in Deloitte’s Customer & Marketing practice.
AUGUSTINE BENJAMIN
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Benjamin Franklin Scholar. Current Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
GIAN FRANCO BERMUDEZ
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate and graduate student. Current Senior Associate at The School District of Philadelphia.
TAJAN BRAITHWAITE RENDEROS
Former Yale University graduate student. Current Senior Manager of Reproductive Health National Training Center, Office of Population Affairs at JSI.
LENA BURLESON
Former University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice graduate student. Current Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
LUCY CLARKE
Former Yale University graduate student. Current Analyst at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
TENDAI CHIZANA
Former Yale University graduate student.
MICHAEL DISTEFANO
Former University of Pennsylvania graduate student. Former Johns Hopkins University doctoral student. Current Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
KIMBERLY HANNON PARROTT
Former Washington University of St. Louis doctoral student.
BRYANT HUANG
Former University of Pennsylvania graduate student. Former University of Texas San Antonio School of Medicine medical student. Current Value Creation / Integration Lead at Optum.
MEGHANA IYER
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Current medical student at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
JOHN PAUL JEWELL
Former Yale University graduate student. Current Regional Sales Manager at OPTERRA Energy Services.
JOSHUA JORDAN
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Fulbright Scholar. Former Harvard Law School law student. Current Judicial Law Clerk at U.S. District Courts.
EMILY KARSCH
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Current Nurse Anesthetist at NYC Health + Hospitals.
NICOLE KEMPER
Former Yale University graduate student. Current Vice President at Clinovations Government and Health.
SARAH KIM
Former Yale University undergraduate student. Former University of Pennsylvania post-baccalaureate student and Perelman School of Medicine medical student. Current Resident Physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
ZACHARY LAWRENCE
Former Yale University research assistant. Current Principal Attorney at Affordable Legal Services, LLC.
CHRISTINA LAZAR
Former George Washington University graduate student. Current Project Director at Yale School of Medicine.
MIHAN LEE
Former Yale University undergraduate student. Former Harvard University medical and doctoral student. Former Resident in Radiology at Cambridge Health Alliance. Current practicing radiologist in New York, New York
RUTH TSUNG-LIN LEE
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Benjamin Franklin Scholar. Perry World House Student Fellow. 2020 Ben Talks Winner.
SHI YING LIM
Former Yale University graduate student. Former University of Texas doctoral student. Current Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore.
CRAIG LUEKENS
Former Yale University graduate student. Senior Pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church Goatville.
ANJALI MAHAJAN
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Current medical student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
LAURA MANNES
Former Washington University in St. Louis graduate student. Current Chaplain at Arkansas Hospice.
CHELSEA WALKER MAO
Former Yale University graduate student. Current Professional Research Assistant at Colorado School of Public Health.
MAYOOKHA (TULI) MITRA-MAJUMDAR
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Former Harvard University graduate student. Current Manager (Pharmacy Strategy and Market Integration) at Commonwealth Care Alliance.
EUNICE MUTHENGI
Former Washington University in St. Louis graduate student. Former doctoral student at UCLA. Current Director (Evidence and Learning Insights) at Mastercard Foundation.
NORA NG
Former Stanford University doctoral student. Current Writing Consultant at Yale University.
RUPA PALANKI
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Benjamin Franklin Scholar. Current Harvard Law School law student.
TRUDEL PARE
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Former Yale Law School law student. Current Williams & Connolly LLP law clerk.
YUNG MIN (CHRISTINE) PARK
Former Yale University research assistant. Current General Surgery Resident at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
ANA RANCIC
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Current Co-Founder of CaseChamp.ai.
AYANA SHIRAI
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Joseph Wharton Scholar, SNF Paideia Fellow. Current Duke University doctoral student.
TAKUDZWA SHUMBA
Former Yale University undergraduate and graduate student. Former Stanford University medical student. Current Family Medicine Physician and Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Health Care.
AKRITI SINGH
Former Yale University graduate student. Former Tufts University doctoral student. Current Associate Director of Policy & Research (Maternal Nutrition) at Eleanor Crook Foundation.
ALEXANDRA SIWULEC
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Life Sciences & Management Program. Dean’s Scholar. Current Senior Associate (Software Investment Team) at Haveli Investments
IKE SWETLITZ
Former Yale University undergraduate student. Current health journalist for Bloomberg News.
RUOCHEN SUN
Former University of Pennsylvania graduate student. Former Yale University graduate student. Current University of Pennsylvania doctoral student.
CATHERINE WANGUI WACHIRA
Former Yale University graduate student and University of Nairobi graduate student. Former Senior Director, Head of Business Operations & Clinical Compliance, Oncology and Senior Director, Worldwide Regulatory Strategy at Pfizer. Current Clinical Research, Hematology/Oncology.
ELIZABETH WEISE
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Joseph Wharton Scholar, SNF Paideia Fellow. Current Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
VICTORIA WU
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Former Case Western School of Medicine medical student. Current Resident at Brigham surgery.
KAZIM ZAIDI
Former Yale University graduate student. Current Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group, New York.
KARA ZHANG
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student, Elmaleh Essay Prize Awardee, Politics, Philosophy and Economics College Alumni Society Prize Awardee. Current Global Associate Director at Bodhi Tree Productions, Canada.
NIKITA ZINZUWADIA
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate student. Current University of Virginia School of Law law student.
FORMER DOCTORAL & MEDICAL STUDENTS and post-doctoral fellows & RESIDENTS
SHELDON AMOO-MITCHUAL
Former University of Pennsylvania undergraduate and medical student. Current intern in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Osler Medical Residency program in Internal Medicine.
FOSTER OSEI BAAH
Former University of Pennsylvania doctoral student. Current Assistant Professor at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
ERIC NSIAH BOATENG
Former University of Ghana doctoral student and Senior Manager of Policy at the National Health Insurance Authority. Current Head of Monitoring and Evaluation (Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation ) Employment at Ghana's Ministry of Health.
CANDACE FELDMAN
Former Yale University medical student. Former Johns Hopkins University graduate student. Current Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity.
JASON GERSON
Former Johns Hopkins University doctoral student. Current Senior Program Officer for the Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
MATTHEW KAVANAGH
Former University of Pennsylvania doctoral student. Current Director of Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Policy & Politics and Associate Professor of Global Health and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University.
HAK-JU KIM
Former Washington University in St. Louis doctoral student. Current Professor at Dongguk University’s Department of Social Welfare.
SHENGXIAO (ALEX) LI
Former University of Pennsylvania doctoral student. Current Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering at National University of Singapore.
BENJAMIN MASON MEIER
Former Columbia University doctoral student. Former Cornell Law School law student. Current Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
TERAISA MULLANEY
Former University of Rochester doctoral student. Current Innovation Executive at Rochester RHIO.
KIM NGUYEN
Former Yale University medical student. Current Primary Care Physician at La Familia Medical Center.
ESTHER NIVASCH TURNER
Former Urology Resident at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Current Urology specialist practicing in Camden, NJ.
SARAH PALLAS
Former Yale University doctoral student. Former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Current Health Economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Global Health.
CHRISTOPHER RICHTER
Former Washington University in St. Louis medical resident. Current VP of Medical Operations at the MedStar Medical Group.
YUSRA SHAWAR
Former University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral fellow. Current Associate Research Professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
ATHEENDAR VENKATARAMANI
Former Yale University doctoral student and Washington University in St. Louis medical student. Current Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine.
FATIMA TUZ ZAHRA
Former University of Pennsylvania doctoral student. Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. Current Assistant Professor of Evaluation, Statistics and Methodology in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.