Sudipta Saha (he/him) is a first-year Population Health Sciences PhD student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. His current research interests are at the intersection of social epidemiologic theories and infectious disease models. He is particularly interested in treating racial capitalism as a fundamental cause of health inequities, and using novel quantitative methods to understand/illustrate how broader political-economic forces shape such inequities.
Sudipta was raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He moved to Canada to obtain his BSc in Microbiology from the University of Toronto. He subsequently completed his Master of Science in Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.