Nimisha Srikanth (she/her) is a Doctor of Philosophy student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale University. She is a NIMH T-32 Predoctoral Fellow in the Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT) in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). Nimisha graduated from Texas A&M University in May 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and from the Yale University School of Public Health in May 2025 with a Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences, with a concentration in United States Health Justice.

Her overall research goal is to synthesize research, program implementation, and policy advocacy into a comprehensive program aimed at improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the United States. Her career goal is to serve as a researcher-activist, teaching and working with young people to create progress in sexual and reproductive health. Additionally, Nimisha works as a health policy fellow under the preceptorship of Rep. Jillian Gilchrest and aides the Reproductive Rights Caucus at the Connecticut General Assembly. She has continued her activism work through serving as a Student Organizer for Advocates for Youth and a Regional Organizing Fellow and Policy Fellow for Emergency Contraception 4 Every Campus (EC4EC) and has worked on projects focusing on emergency contraception and general contraception access, access to abortion care, and training abortion doulas.