Youth Voice Intern
Washington Department of Health
Kirkland, WA
Koumudi Thanda is a Honors student studying Public Health at the University of Washington. Koumudi is an active voice on campus contributing to anti-racism in community health efforts and increasing awareness on health inequities among peers. Her main objective in public health is to work on youth health outcomes with a community-based and interdisciplinary approaches. She assists in research at UW; notably DeWorm3, a global health project aimed to interrupt soil-transmitted helminths amongst school aged kids in Benin, Malawi and India and, Project WISE, a qualitative study on barriers to implementing suicide risk screening in Level 1 Trauma Center. Koumudi has also interned and volunteered at nonprofits and community based orgs focusing on youth engagement, health education, and community health promotion. As an immigrant from India, she actively engages with the Indian community, contributing to fundraising efforts. She will be attending Johns Hopkins University for MSPH in Global Diseases Epidemiology and Control in fall and hopes to contribute to the efforts in improving the health of youth around world.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PT