2024 Leadership in Global Health Fellows
Megan J. Allen, DNP '25: Megan will work at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as a Staff Wellness Fellow, focusing on collecting information on Intensive Case Management (ICM) staff wellness, identifying solutions, and mapping out an action plan that helps frontline staff improve and maintaining their own wellbeing while serving others.
Nour Al Zouabi, MPH '25: Nour will work at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as a Virtual Case Management Fellow, focusing on providing virtual supplemental case management to vulnerable newcomers for whom in-person services are not an option. She will focus on providing 25 remote medical, mental health, and behavioral health-related case management for newcomers who are considered especially vulnerable.
Felicia Annan-Mills, MPH '25: Felicia will work at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as a Staff Wellness Fellow, focusing on collecting information on Intensive Case Management (ICM) staff wellness, identifying solutions, and mapping out an action plan that helps frontline staff improve and maintaining their own wellbeing while serving others.
Cristina Arnés Sanz, MPH '25: Cristina will be joining The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (TGF), where she will focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and climate change. Her responsibilities will include analyzing and reporting on financial investments in AMR to track implementation in priority countries through engagement with country teams. Additionally, Cristina will help identify and analyze TGF's climate-relevant interventions through a review of global climate and health frameworks and structured consultations with TGF technical experts.
Leleda Beraki, MPH '25: Leleda will work at World Bank as an Analyst to support climate and health agenda in low- and middle-income countries. Leleda will provide analytical support toward the refinement of climate and health diagnostic tools and the identification and application of key health systems performance metrics to identify exemplars for climate-resilient health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Malakha Bility, MSN '25: Malakha will work at UNICEF HQ. Malakha will contribute to the UNICEF’s work in the Maternal Newborn Adolescent Health unit of the Health section in Programme Division, New York headquarters around quantitative and qualitative analysis, development of knowledge products, advocacy and policy briefs and review of annual and period reports in the relevant areas.
Carson Ferrara, MPH '25: Carson will work UNICEF as their Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Fellow. He will contribute to the UNICEF’s work in Adolescent Health and Mental Health in the Latin America and Caribbean Regions around quantitative and qualitative analysis, development of knowledge products, advocacy and policy briefs and technical support to countries and meetings in the relevant areas.
Dina Garmroudi, BS '24: Dina will work at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as a Virtual Case Management Fellow, focusing on providing virtual supplemental case management to vulnerable newcomers for whom in-person services are not an option. Dina will focus on providing 25 remote medical, mental health, and behavioral health-related case management for newcomers who are considered especially vulnerable.
Aeka Guru, BK '25: Aeka will work at UNICEF focusing on Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH). She will support UNICEF to map stakeholders active in the MHH space, and identify opportunities where UNICEF can take leadership in the sector and can collaborate with others. She will also support review and analysis of existing indicator lists that are developed to monitor MHH.
Sofia Jacobson, BA '26: Sofia will work at World Bank as an Analyst to support climate and health agenda in low- and middle-income countries. Sofia will help provide analytical support toward the refinement of climate and health diagnostic tools and the identification and application of key health systems performance metrics to identify exemplars for climate-resilient health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Yana Jayampthy, BA '26: Yana will work at GAVI as the Public Policy Engagement (Country and Regional Advocacy) Fellow. In this role, Yana will review and analyze regional and country public policy contexts to identify entry points for Gavi’s advocacy priorities, conduct research activities to compile information and messages tailored to the needs of the Public Policy Engagement team, and assist in writing quality policy reports, briefings, and policy briefs. Support the organization of meetings with key regional entities, government officials, and advocacy partners.
Lucy Kim, B.A.-B.S./M.P.P ‘25: Lucy will work at The Global Fund financing of integrated disease and collaborative surveillance by the Global Fund. The role will focus on analyses and reporting of financial investments in integrated disease and collaborative surveillance systems in priority countries including but not limited to the GF, US government (US CDC, USAID and DITRA), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, and others.
Ivy Liao, MPH '25: Ivy will work at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on getting ahead of pandemic risk through reliable data and actionable. In this role, she will be responsible for research, writing and data analytics on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR), with a specific focus on risk, financing, and the socio-economic dimensions of addressing pandemics.
Zheyuan (Lucas) Lu, YSM/YSPH '25: Lucas will work at World Bank as an Analyst to support climate and health agenda in low- and middle-income countries. He will focus on providing analytical support toward the refinement of climate and health diagnostic tools and the identification and application of key health systems performance metrics to identify exemplars for climate-resilient health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Ushuu Namarra, BR '25: Ushuu will work at The International Rescue Committee (IRC) as a Client Voice Fellow. In this project, she will collect qualitative data from clients who have received intervention sessions or participated in emotional resiliency workshops provided through IRC’s partnership with Cornerstone Marriage and Family Intervention.
Precious Nchekwube, MPH '25: Precious will work at The International Rescue Committee (IRC) as a Client Voice Fellow. In this project, she will collect qualitative data from clients who have received intervention sessions or participated in emotional resiliency workshops provided through IRC’s partnership with Cornerstone Marriage and Family Intervention.
Avi Patel, BA '26: Avi will work at GAVI as the Public Policy Engagement (Policy Analysis and Global Advocacy) Fellow. In this role, Avi will review and analyze global public policy instruments and landscape to identify entry points for Gavi’s advocacy priorities, undertake research activities to compile information/messages that are tailored to the needs of the Public Policy Engagement team, and assist with writing quality policy reports, briefings, policy briefs.
Megan Piller, MPH '25: Megan will work at UNICEF focusing on Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH). She will support UNICEF to map stakeholders active in the MHH space, and identify opportunities where UNICEF can take leadership in the sector and can collaborate with others. She will also support review and analysis of existing indicator lists that are developed to monitor MHH.
Dilcia Rodriguez-Diaz, MPH '25: Dilcia will work UNICEF as their Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Fellow. She will contribute to the UNICEF’s work in Adolescent Health and Mental Health in the Latin America and Caribbean Regions around quantitative and qualitative analysis, development of knowledge products, advocacy and policy briefs and technical support to countries and meetings in the relevant areas.
Annie Shen, YC '24: Annie will work at UNICEF HQ. Annie will contribute to the UNICEF’s work in the Maternal Newborn Adolescent Health unit of the Health section in Programme Division, New York headquarters around quantitative and qualitative analysis, development of knowledge products, advocacy and policy briefs and review of annual and period reports in the relevant areas.
Shawn Van, MPH '25: Shawn will work at UNICEF focusing on Marketing Strengthening for Sanitation. In this project, he will focus on developing a composite sustainability measure of market strength. The sustainability measure will be made up of key indicators with corresponding datapoints that UNICEF staff can collect from public and programmatic sources.
Shankeri Vijayakumar, MPH '25: Shankeri will work at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on systems-based approaches for health and SDG acceleration. She will be responsible for research and writing on addressing the determinants of health through systems-based approaches, which have growing political momentum. This work will detail what UNDP means by ‘systems for health’ versus ‘health systems’, demonstrating how food and agricultural systems, energy systems, public financial systems, and data and digital systems, for example, impact on health and well-being and can be better calibrated to accelerate progress on SDG 3 and Agenda 2030 writ large.