Infectious Disease Fellow Physician
University of North Carolina, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
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Dr. Megan Srinivas is an infectious disease physician and translation health policy research fellow at the University of North Carolina who resides and practices in rural Iowa. Her research focuses on using social innovation to address health inequities. She’s currently studying how political change impacts access to reproductive healthcare for marginalized populations in rural America. She has been very active in Iowa’s COVID-19 response, recently being named one of InStyle Magazine’s “Bad Ass Women of the Year,” which recognizes 50 women in health care. She’s also a 2020 Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity and collaborated with two of her co-fellows to establish the COVID Health Animation Project (CHAP), which aims to create culturally-informed health animations to help overcome COVID’s racialized disparities. She worked for the World Food Prize Foundation in Kenya analyzing factors influencing household food security and was awarded the John Chrystal Award for outstanding contribution to hunger issues. In college, Dr. Srinivas co-founded Boston’s Peer Health Exchange, a non-profit teaching comprehensive health education in socioeconomically-disadvantaged schools. She also studied the evolution of malarial drug resistance in South America, changing national treatment policy in Peru and earning Harvard’s Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. During her Masters, she investigated healthcare stigma/discrimination impeding HIV treatment in Brazil. Megan currently works with Project Echo to provide hepatitis C care via telehealth in rural Iowa. She is a national delegate to the American Medical Association and on the Infectious Disease Society of America Public Health Advisory Committee. Megan graduated Harvard College in 2009, University of Iowa Medical School in 2014, Harvard School of Public Health in 2014, and completed internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University in 2017.