Lidya Tadesse, MHS

Lidya Tadesse (she/her) is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences based in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is passionate about understanding how upstream factors impact population health and health disparities. She is interested in employing quasi-experimental study designs to evaluate and inform a broad range of health and social policies, including poverty reduction, immigration, and injury prevention.

Lidya received her BA in Public Health Studies and MHS in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Harvard, she worked as a data and policy analyst supporting federal health agencies.