Ashwini Nagappan, MBE, BA

Project Title/Research Interests: Consumer Willingness to Share Health Data with Stakeholders Among US Adults in 2018-2022

Mentor:
Xi Zhu, PhD

Background:
Ashwini is pursuing her PhD in Health Policy and Management at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health. She is currently a research fellow at Rock Health, and for the past four years, she has worked on research exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies at the Wexler Lab at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. Ashwini is interested in studying the rise of direct-to-consumer digital health and how technology innovations are reshaping care delivery. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Public Health and Sociology from NYU and her master’s degree in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania.