
Priya Agarwal-Harding

Natalie Chong

Elad Daniels

Yaminette Diaz-Linhart
Paul Dismukes

Lindsay Garito

Dhwani Hariharan
Dhwani Hariharan is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in health policy analysis and decision modeling at the Heller School. Her doctoral research focuses on cost-effectiveness analysis of pediatric immunization strategies to offer data-driven evidence to US policymakers. At the Heller School, her research experience includes impact of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) on infants, quality of life, and managing and analyzing the dataset for the evaluation of the PEPFAR program. During her Heller studies, she also contributed to evaluations of CMS programs in skilled nursing facilities at RTI International. She has also worked as a Teaching Assistant for graduate-level courses, including health economics and data analytics. Prior to her doctoral work, she worked as a Reviewer for the CEA Registry at the Center for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health. She earned a Master’s in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy from MCPHS University and a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Pune University, India. She aims to use her education at Heller to facilitate equitable policymaking in the healthcare industry.

Gabrielle Katz

Masami Kelly

Ben Kragen

Christian Lopez
Christian Lopez is a Social Policy PhD student, concentrating in Health, and is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Pre-Doctoral Trainee. Her research interests are centered on health care utilization among newly insured individuals, the effects of immigration status on household healthcare utilization trends, and organizational factors that promote efficiency at federally qualified health centers. Christian is focused on work related to Latinas/os in the U.S. and on the measurement of racial and ethnic health disparities. Her previous research experience includes the study of social determinants of health, substance use and prevention in the Latina/o community, and community resilience in public health. Christian has published work in the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors Journal, the Journal for Disaster Management and Public Health Preparedness, at the RAND Corporation, and with the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at USC. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s degree in Latina/o Studies and Political Studies from Pitzer College.

Yiqun Luan

Ekwu Ochigbo
H. Awo Osei-Anto

Kumba Sennaar

Michael Vetter
Most recently, his research experience focused on healthcare utilization outcomes and measures of strain and distress for persons living with dementia and their familial caregivers. Vetter plans to expand on this work by examining mental health utilization among Medicare beneficiaries through healthcare delivery evaluation. He completed a Master of Public Health degree at Tufts University in 2018 and a Master of Arts in sociocultural anthropology at Brandeis University in 2011.

Drew Zachary
