My journey to public health began long before arriving at Yale. It began with me navigating chronic health challenges as a woman, trying to understand how systems often fail patients, especially women. Over time, that experience provided direction rather than despair. I learned to turn pain into power and eventually co-founded a women's health company focused on creating accessible and empathetic care pathways in India. Raising venture capital as a female founder in women's health also revealed another reality: who receives funding determines which health problems the world chooses to address.
As a student in the Advanced Professional Master of Public Health (MPH) program, I found the language, frameworks, and community to think about these questions at a systems level. I became deeply involved in Yale's innovation ecosystem, engaging in entrepreneurship, health innovation, and discussions about AI and the future of work. As a Health Innovation Fellow at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and Founder-in-Residence at Tsai CITY, I was committed to helping Yale founders ask better questions about technology, uncertainty, and leadership in rapidly changing environments.
After graduation, I hope to work at the intersection of health care, biotechnology, and venture capital, especially in India and emerging markets. For me, this is central to public health impact. Capital determines which medicines are developed, which technologies scale, and which communities are prioritized. I want to help create stronger, more equitable funding pathways for health care innovation across the global majority.
Yale strengthened my belief that public health extends beyond clinics. It also exists in boardrooms, investment decisions, labs, and among people willing to reimagine systems that once excluded them.