Priyanka Dutta
Program Evaluation Co-Lead, she/her/hers
Priyanka is a MPH candidate in the Sociomedical Sciences Department with a certificate in Health Communication at the Mailman School of Public Health. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology with honors, and a minor in Dance from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. She did a semester abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark her junior year, studying Clinical Psychology and International Advertising. During her undergraduate career, she participated in various research projects including two global social psychology studies for the University of Portland, one of which she presented at the annual SPSP conference (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) in San Antonio. She wrote and presented an honors thesis in cultural psychology that looked at the effects of language discrepancies on Asian American family dynamics. She was also active on campus, where she was senior class president, a peer mentor and peer tutor and the recipient of the McPherson Award for excellence in academics and community service.
After graduating, she moved back to Mumbai, where she worked in education consulting, counseling high school students, teaching short courses and contributing to the marketing team. Currently, she is working at the Region 2 Public Health Training Center as their Outreach and Communications Specialist to evaluate and and provide recommendations for their communications strategy plan for the new grant year. Her career and research interests include health behavior research, health communication, mental health promotion, intervention design and chronic disease prevention.