What the Air Takes
How long-term air pollution may shape who ends up needing a new organ, and what happens to them while they wait for one.
Research & science
The Lab
Notebook
I'm drawn to questions about how our surroundings shape our health: the air we breathe, the ground we play on, the systems we're cared for in. And who ends up carrying the weight of it.
Project names are kept general out of respect for collaborators and work that's still in progress.
I.
Environment & the Body
Hot Ground
How heat builds up on different playing surfaces and what that means for kids and athletes, shaped together with the communities who actually play on them.
Where Athletes Fall
Comparing injury patterns across the surfaces people play sports on, using national injury surveillance data.
II.
Care, Community & Equity
Two Countries, One Beginning
Comparing prenatal care, birth practices and maternal outcomes in the U.S. and India, through an international student collaboration.
Every Kid Counts
Research and strategy supporting diversity, inclusion and development in pediatric care.
The Waiting Room
How leadership priorities and policy choices relate to long emergency-room wait times.
Pocket-Sized Help
Pocket cards of crisis lines and mental health resources for students, plus advocacy for better access in under-resourced schools.
Logged On, Less Alone
How online gaming communities can become real sources of social support and ease isolation.
III.
Biology & Building Things
Editing Out a Virus
A deep review of how CRISPR gene editing is being explored as a targeted antiviral therapy for HIV.
A Better Connection
Designing and 3D-printing a prototype sleeve to help prosthetic limbs read nerve signals more reliably.
The Toolbox
- Analysis
- R, SAS and Python, plus survival analysis
- With people
- Surveys, qualitative analysis and community engagement
- Making things
- 3D modeling and printing, Arduino and code
- Languages
- English, Gujarati, Hindi and French