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Riya Desai

Riya is a junior at UC Berkeley studying Public Health and minoring in Global Poverty and practice. Riya has been working with the Bixby Center in September 2016 and has since been working on the Integration of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Project in Rwanda. She contributes to monitoring and evolution efforts for the program by coordinating with an on-site in regards to data collection and clarification. She also manages, organizes, and cleans the database for the Integration project. Riya is also involved with the Bhagat Puran Singh Health Initiative on campus where, as president, she helps organize health screenings at Gurdwaras in the Bay Area and conducts analysis of screening records. She also facilitates a DeCal on campus on slum health with topics ranging from the history of development, housing concerns, and disease burdens and health disparities in slums. She will be interning in Mumbai summer of 2017 with the research team of an NGO called SNEHA that provides maternal and child health services to women in Mumbai slums. Riya is dedicated to reproductive justice and its intersection with poverty action work.

    Team members

    • Tiffany Chan
    • Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
    • Colette (Coco) Auerswald, MD, MS
    • Martha Madison Campbell, PhD
    • Julianna Deardorff, PhD
    • Emily Gainor
    • Alisha Graves, MPH
    • Kim Harley, PhD
    • Rebecca Hémono
    • Nuriye Nalan Sahin Hodoglugil, MD, MA, DrPH
    • Sarah Jane Holcombe, PhD, MPH, MPPM
    • Robert (Nap) Hosang, MD, MPH, MBA, FRCOG, FACOG
    • Siti Juwariyah, MBA
    • Lena Kan
    • Kristina Kastler, MPH
    • Teresa Kopp, MPH
    • Ruby Lucas
    • Stephanie Machado
    • Sandra McCoy, PhD, MPH
    • Marc D. Mitchell
    • Paige Passano, MPH
    • Joanna Percher
    • Daniel Perlman, PhD
    • Elizabeth Pleasants
    • Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG
    • Tami Rowen MS, MD
    • Karen Sokal-Gutierrez MD, MPH
    • Dilys Walker, MD, FACOG
    • Julia Walsh, MD, MSc
    • Karen Weidert, MPH

    Recent News

    • Summer 2019 Funding Opportunity

      January 24, 2019
    • New Bixby Publication in Dovepress about abortion history and modern contraception in Luanda, Angola

      July 17, 2018
    • Bixby has new publication in GHSP Journal about engaging men in FP

      June 14, 2018
    • New Bixby publication in SSM-Population Health is available online

      June 14, 2018

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