Harvard Medical School
Chris graduated from Yale College in 2020 with a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Economics. He then spent two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital Medical Practice Evaluation Center performing cost-effectiveness analyses of domestic and global public health interventions. At Harvard Medical School, Chris has continued to contribute to public health and health policy-relevant research, focusing on preventive screenings, vaccine safety, and social drivers of health. As part of Mass EQLHS, Chris is interested in improving healthcare delivery and care access for all populations.

Harvard Medical School

Grace graduated from Duke University in 2023 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and certificate in Child Policy Research. At Duke, she led a program that leveraged student volunteers to screen and refer patients to resources for their health-related social needs. She led the program’s expansion to the Duke Health system and worked on North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot, a statewide pilot to innovate social needs resource reimbursement. At Harvard, she is the VP of Community Health and Action, and as a member of Mass EQLHS, is dedicated to promoting healthcare access, preventive care, and social and medical care integration.

Harvard Medical School

Dorsa graduated in 2021 from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Public Health. During her time at UC Berkeley, she was a member of the Fung Fellowship, where she leveraged human-centered design, community-based participatory research, and digital technology to solve public health challenges facing underserved populations often excluded from health innovations. As a current MD candidate at Harvard Medical School and member of Mass EQLHS, her goal is to explore HCD’s potential role in enhancing patient and public engagement in LHS to address gaps in health innovation and healthcare delivery. 

Learning Health System Research Fellow, Mass EQLHS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Imaging, Mass General Brigham

Mawra is a Learning Health System Research Fellow at Mass EQLHS and a postdoctoral fellow in cardiovascular imaging at Mass General Brigham. Her research focuses on advanced cardiac MRI and vascular aging. She has previously worked with the Framingham Heart Study and Jackson Heart Study, examining how lifestyle and behavioral factors influence arterial stiffness and long-term cardiovascular risk. She is also the founder of MAMTA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving metabolic health literacy in rural India. Through MAMTA, she leads community-based initiatives such as promoting continuous home blood-pressure monitoring in villages without access to BP devices, increasing awareness of metabolic diseases, and addressing barriers to health-seeking behavior. At Mass EQLHS, Mawra is interested in understanding how investigators meaningfully engage patient partners in research. Her work emphasizes human-centered design, co-production, and approaches that ensure patient perspectives drive innovation within learning health systems.

Resident, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Sahil is a recent MD graduate from Harvard Medical School, a Samvid Scholar alumni, and is currently a resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a Foster Scholar at the Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed his self-designed bachelor’s degree in health innovation at Duke University. He studied the use of evidence-based practice to design, implement, and evaluate new health innovations, from artificial intelligence tools to new value-based payment models. While at Duke, he founded a community resource navigator program to help patients connect to resources for their social needs such food insecurity and housing instability. He then completed his master’s in health services research at Newcastle University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar, where he evaluated social prescribing models to integrate health and social services. At Harvard Medical School, he continued to lead research and policy projects on healthcare strategies to improve healthcare outcomes for all. His work has resulted in over three dozen publications in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and JAMA Internal Medicine. Working at the intersection of clinical medicine, care delivery transformation, and health policy, Sahil aspires to become a physician committed to building a stronger healthcare system.

Assisting Dr. Sarrah Shahawy

Roya Ahmadi is a senior at Stanford University studying Human Biology with a self-designed concentration in Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Women's Health and a minor in Interdisciplinary Arts. Her primary interests are in Muslim and SWANA women's sexual and reproductive health and culturally and religiously sensitive pregnancy care. Roya has interned with Motherbeing, a Cairo, Egypt based women's health platform delivering context-tailored sexual and reproductive health education to MENA women through a mobile application and AI chat assistant that speaks different Arabic dialects. Roya is also a co-chair for the Stanford Institute for the Arts Fellowship and a video and sound installation artist who has presented work in group shows across the US.

Assisting Dr. Sarrah Shahawy

Nadiha Noor Chelsea is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) with a medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). As a Bangladeshi-born Canadian, she has witnessed firsthand that there’s room for improvement in women's health. Her research interests are focused on improving women’s healthcare outcomes. She is especially committed to exploring and implementing strategies that empower women to navigate healthcare systems, ensuring they receive high-quality care.

Assisting Dr. Sarrah Shahawy

Lobna graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Religious Studies and a minor in Bioethics. Following her undergraduate studies, she joined Teach For America, where she taught high school students and earned her Master of Science in Education from Johns Hopkins University. With a passion for both medicine and education, she aims to improve healthcare outcomes by leveraging her unique background and experiences in education and bioethics.

Assisting Dr. Sarrah Shahaway
Sarah graduated from Yale College in 2022 with a degree in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. At Yale, she was a clinical research coordinator for the COPPER Cancer Center, where she aided in the development of standardized tools to better connect low-income ovarian cancer survivors with community resources. She then received a Fulbright scholarship to attend University College London and obtained a masters in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Health. At Harvard Medical School, Sarah works alongside community organizations like Saheli to increase improve access to healthcare in South Asian and Arab communities. As a member of Mass EQLHS, she is interested in investigating the factors that are most important in health decision-making for women of all backgrounds. 

Assisting Dr. Sarrah Shahaway
Neirja recently graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience. Curious about understanding the clinical aspects of women’s health, Neirja is currently working as a Medical Secretary/Assistant at an Outpatient OB/GYN Medical Clinic, with plans to pursue medical school in the future. Through participation in the MeRGE Lab, she is excited to learn more about the role of religion and culture in maternal and reproductive health outcomes. 

Assisting Dr. Sarrah Shahaway
Elizabeth is a sophomore at Harvard University studying Anthropology and Medicine with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She is a student researcher with the MeRGE Lab, where she contributes to research at the intersection of gender and health. Her prior work includes advancing menstrual initiatives in Tanzania, supporting women’s health programs in Boston, and contributing to cancer research at the SouthCoast Cancer Center. Elizabeth is also currently involved in health advocacy and community engagement through Partners in Health Engage, Women’s Fund SouthCoast, and the Girl Up New England Coalition. Her academic and advocacy interests center on women’s health and global health. 

Assisting Dr. Sarrah Shahawy
Shreetoma Datta is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She earned her medical degree in Pune, India, where she held leadership roles in student research and national medical organizations. She is currently preparing to pursue residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the United States.

Her research focuses on maternal and reproductive health, with peer-reviewed publications on pregnancy outcomes in COVID-19, minimally invasive myomectomy, breastfeeding among people with HIV, and the multicenter PLACID Trial. She also completed research electives at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in HIV in pregnancy and reproductive endocrinology. Through her work with Mass EQLHS and the MERGE Research Lab, Shreetoma now seeks to identify the social, clinical, and contextual factors that guide health decision-making for women from all backgrounds.

Assisting Dr. Rose Olson
Trishathi is a public health researcher with training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and dentistry. She holds an MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health and a dental degree from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) in India. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she works with Dr. Rose Olson in the Department of Internal Medicine and Dr. Ingrid Katz in the Division of Women’s Health, contributing to studies on emergency department (ED) boarding. Her research interests focus on improving access to medical and oral healthcare and implementing effective interventions in real-world settings.

Assisting Dr. Rose Olson

Zoe graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024 with a B.A. in Public Health. Her research focuses on women’s health and the differences in healthcare outcomes faced by all communities. She is particularly interested in understanding women’s long-term health complications. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Zoe is committed to improving healthcare delivery and passionate about healthcare policy’s role in improving access to healthcare.