Nimisha Srikanth

Graduate Research Assistant

Nimisha Srikanth is a Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences student at the Yale University School of Public Health. Nimisha recently graduated from Texas A&M University in May 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health. She is passionate about reproductive justice, health disparities, youth advocacy, and community empowerment.

 

At Texas A&M, Nimisha led the organization Feminists for Reproductive Equity and Education (FREE Aggies) from 2021 to 2023, working to educate about and advocate for reproductive justice in the Texas A&M and Bryan/College Station communities. Through her work with FREE Aggies, she was featured in multiple national news articles- including in KFF Health News, NBC, and NPR- and spoke at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Reproductive Rights Roundtable about reproductive healthcare advocacy in Texas. Nimisha has also published papers analyzing facial defects in mice with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at Texas A&M and sexual and reproductive health and bariatrics at her internship at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health Dallas Campus.

 

After graduating with her MPH, Nimisha aspires to earn a PhD in Public Health specializing in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health. She intends to develop programs and policies to help improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the United States. In her free time, Nimisha is an avid hockey fan and enjoys keeping up with pop culture events and trends in her free time.