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Aashna Lal, MPH

Doctoral Student


Aashna Lal is a doctoral student in the Department of Health Management & Policy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of health, housing, and social policy, with a specific interest in structural approaches to ending homelessness. Aashna completed her MPH from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, where she worked as a research assistant for the Initiative on Health and Homelessness, and her BSA in Biology and BA in Plan II Honors at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to earning her MPH, Aashna worked as a research assistant for The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in New York.