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Pooja Yerramilli

University of Pennsylvania, MD Candidate | Yale, LSE, LSHTM Alumna

Pooja Yerramilli is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine (University of Pennsylvania). She recently served as a consultant for the World Health Organization's Office for Health Systems Strengthening and Project Coordinator for the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network. She has research and media experience in South Africa and India, where she studied the challenges associated with aging populations, cancer care and control, and access to medicines and vaccines. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science, concentrating in Health Politics & Policy, and holds an MSc. in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing, a joint degree awarded by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics.