Seetha H. Davis (she/her) is a Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a medical student at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on how social and societal adversities in childhood and adolescence shape health across the life course, particularly for immigrant and forcibly displaced populations. She is committed to action-driven research that aims to identify, interrogate, and ameliorate health inequities through institutional, structural, and systemic change.
Prior to starting graduate school, Seetha received her BA in Educational Studies and Psychology from Swarthmore College and worked as a research assistant at the Trauma and Community Resilience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital.