Mass EQLHS Student Scholars

SAHIL SANDHU, MD Candidate

Mass EQLHS Student Scholar

Sahil is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School and a Samvid Scholar. He is also a Foster Scholar at the Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed his self-designed bachelor’s degree in health innovation at Duke University. He studied the use of evidence-based practice to design, implement, and evaluate new health innovations, from artificial intelligence tools to new value-based payment models. While at Duke, he founded a community resource navigator program to help patients connect to resources for their social needs such food insecurity and housing instability. He then completed his master’s in health services research at Newcastle University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar, where he evaluated social prescribing models to integrate health and social services. At Harvard Medical School, he continues to lead research and policy projects on healthcare strategies to improve healthcare outcomes for all. His work has resulted in over three dozen publications in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and JAMA Internal Medicine. Working at the intersection of clinical medicine, care delivery transformation, and health policy, Sahil aspires to become a physician committed to building a stronger healthcare system.

DORSA MOSLEHI, MD Candidate

Mass EQLHS Student Scholar

Dorsa graduated in 2021 from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Public Health. During her time at UC Berkeley, she was a member of the Fung Fellowship, where she leveraged human-centered design, community-based participatory research, and digital technology to solve public health challenges facing underserved populations often excluded from health innovations. As a current MD candidate at Harvard Medical School and member of Mass EQLHS, her goal is to explore HCD’s potential role in enhancing patient and public engagement in LHS to address gaps in health innovation and healthcare delivery. 

LOBNA RAYA, MSEd

Research Assistant to Dr. Sarrah Shahawy

Lobna graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Religious Studies and a minor in Bioethics. Following her undergraduate studies, she joined Teach For America, where she taught high school students and earned her Master of Science in Education from Johns Hopkins University. With a passion for both medicine and education, she aims to improve healthcare outcomes by leveraging her unique background and experiences in education and bioethics.

ROYA AHMADI, BS Candidate

Research Assistant to Dr. Sarrah Shahawy

Roya Ahmadi is a senior at Stanford University studying Human Biology with a self-designed concentration in Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Women's Health and a minor in Interdisciplinary Arts. Her primary interests are in Muslim and SWANA women's sexual and reproductive health and culturally and religiously sensitive pregnancy care. Roya has interned with Motherbeing, a Cairo, Egypt based women's health platform delivering context-tailored sexual and reproductive health education to MENA women through a mobile application and AI chat assistant that speaks different Arabic dialects. Roya is also a co-chair for the Stanford Institute for the Arts Fellowship and a video and sound installation artist who has presented work in group shows across the US.

Nadiha Noor Chelsea, MB, BCh, BAO

Research Assistant to Dr. Sarrah Shahawy

Nadiha Noor Chelsea is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) with a medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). As a Bangladeshi-born Canadian, she has witnessed firsthand that there’s room for improvement in women's health. Her research interests are focused on improving women’s healthcare outcomes. She is especially committed to exploring and implementing strategies that empower women to navigate healthcare systems, ensuring they receive high-quality care.