Biography

I am a Tibetan-American who grew up between New Haven, Connecticut, and the Hunsur Tibetan Refugee Settlement in India. Growing up across these settings shaped my interest in migration, resettlement, and the public institutions that structure life for migrants and refugees.Public health is my North Star. It has guided my undergraduate training at Yale University and my work as an advocate and researcher across local health systems, national institutions, and humanitarian contexts in the Americas, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. My work has included shaping refugee health policy, producing population-level health evidence, and evaluating humanitarian and asylum health practices at scale.At a time when displacement is both increasingly widespread and long term, my MPhil in Population Health Sciences at Cambridge will contribute to scholarship that informs future responses to refugee situations. I will examine refugee and migrant health outcomes across the life course, with the aim of advancing durable, evidence-driven approaches to humanitarian operations, health governance, and resettlement policy. I am excited to join the Gates Cambridge community in tackling global challenges and empowering marginalized communities.

Previous Education

Yale University Global Public Health 2026