Bhavya Joshi
Bhavya Joshi is a third year DrPH candidate at UC Berkeley. As a Global Public Health Fellow, Bixby Summer 2022 Fellow, Human Rights Center Fellow 2022, and African Studies Center Fellow, Bhavya’s doctoral research focuses on understanding the reproductive health services and needs among women in contexts affected by multiple events of crises. As a women's human rights advocate and educator, Bhavya supports women's rights defenders from across the globe to build their capacity to use international human rights mechanisms for advocacy and activism at national, regional, and international levels.
Blake Erhardt-Ohren
Blake Erhardt-Ohrenis a third year DrPH candidate at UC Berkeley. She is passionate about improved access to sexual and reproductive health services, particularly safe abortion and post-abortion care, for forcibly displaced populations. Her dissertation focuses on the exploration of maternal death surveillance and response in refugee camps and settlements, and will test out a new methodology to more accurately estimate the burden of maternal mortality, and specifically mortality due to abortion complications, in Kakuma, Kenya.
Cara Schulte
Cara Schulte is a third-year doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in the intersection of climate change, public health, and human rights. Her research centers on climate impacts and adaptation in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on leveraging human rights and related legal frameworks to advance climate and health solutions. She is a researcher with Dr. Laura H. Kwong’s Global Environmental Health Equity Lab and a fellow at the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies.
Divya Periyakoil
Divya Periyakoil is a Master's Public Health student at Johns Hopkings University. She has an avid research interest in population health, the social determinants of health, and the public health implications of social disparities, with the goal of promoting health equity for the underserved. She hopes to apply computational and data science techniques to work on the thorny health problems that plague humans. Currently, she is a visiting student researcher in the Bixby Center.
Mikail Aliyu
Mikail Aliyuis a third year DrPH candidate at UC Berkeley. His research is focused on expanding access to self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health in Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on introducing and scaling up access to DMPA-SC – a self-injectable contraceptive among women and girls in hard-to-reach communities. Over the past decade, he has worked in various capacities, providing technical assistance to governments and donors to facilitate enabling structures and processes for priority setting and coordination of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health services in the Sub-Saharan region.
Renee Clarke
Renee Clarke is a third year DrPH candidate at UC Berkeley. Her research is focused on care after birth for Black birthing people in California. Renee examines the healthcare needs and experiences of Black women up to one year postpartum to provide solutions to improve models of care. Her focus is on maternal and child health policy, strategy, and innovation to improve healthcare systems. Her passion has always been service leadership and eliminating health disparity gaps among women, infants, and children.