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South Asian Public Health Association

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Neelam Gupta, MPH, MSW
neelamg@gmail.com
Ms. Gupta is a Program Manager with Partners in Care Foundation, overseeing projects to improve health care access and delivery in Los Angeles County in California. Active in the South Asian community, Ms. Gupta has also been involved with the South Asian Network in Los Angeles, the South Asian Public Health Association (SAPHA), the National South Asian HIV/AIDS Network (NSAHIVNET), and Asian Pacific Islanders for Human Rights (APIHR).

Youth Health

Kalpana Bhandarkar; Amishi M. Gandhi, MPH; Mona Shah, MSW
saphakalpana@yahoo.com
Kalpana Bhandarkar, BA Ms. Bhandarkar works at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (AHC) in New Yor, where she provices programmatic support to the Center and also works with the Downstate Center for Excellence, AHC's technical assistance arm. She is also NY/NJ Chapter Lead of Project IMPACT for South Asian Americans and is a Founding Board Member of the South Asian Public Health Association. Amishi M. Gandhi, MPH amishi@boo.net Ms. Gandhi currently works at Eastern Research Group where she provides industrial hygiene and other research services to federal agencies. Her community interests include working with the homeless. Mona Shah, MSSW mona510@hotmail.com Ms. Shah is currently working as a Project Associate for the ACCESS and EQUITY in AFTER SCHOOLS PROJECT at California Tomorrow. Her background is in working with youth in a direct service setting and youth program development

Women's Health

Sharmila S. Rao, MPH, MPA; Shazia Akram, MPH; Susan L. Ivey, MD, MHSA; Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MPH, MD, MA
ssr20@columbia.edu
Sharmila S. Rao, MPH, MPA ssr20@columbia.edu Ms. Rao is an independent consultant with experience in health research, program development, communications, education, and advocacy. She has worked with the Ford Foundation on issues of sexual & reproductive health, rights, and policy, co-founded Sakhi's Women's Health Initiative in New York City, and has been active with SAPHA since its inception in 1999. Shazia Akram, MPH nazanam@yahoo.com Ms. Akram works at the Asian American Federation of New York, providing technical assistance and health promotion programs of Asian community-based organizations. She is also a member of SAPHA and the Women's Health Initiative at Sakhi for South Asian Women. Susan L. Ivey, MD, MHSA silveymd@socrates.berkeley.edu Dr. Ivey is a board-certified family physician and chronic disease prevention researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a long-standing interest in heart disease among women, particularly ethnic minority women. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MD, MPH, MA bhaswati@aol.com Dr. Bhattacharya is an attending physician in the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in New York City, where she serves as Director of Research, Development and Education. Her work in the South Asian community includes projects with SAPHA, APPI, AIF, and Sakhi.

Elderly Care

Abhijit Ghosh, MPH; Rashmi Gupta, PhD, LMSW

Abhijit Ghosh, MPH saphaabhijit@yahoo.com Mr. Ghosh is a fellow in Health Communications at the National Cancer Institute. A SAPHA member and co-founder since its inception in 1999, he has been involved in health advocacy for the South Asian community. Rashmi Gupta, PhD, LMSW drrgupta@attbi.com Dr. Gupta is a private practitioner and works in Dallas, Texas where she operates a private clinic. She has published numerous articles on the Asian Indian elderly.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health

H. Partick Mangto; Micah Carvalho; Sapna Pandya, MPH

H. Patrick Mangto patmangto@aol.com Mr. Mangto is Executive Director of Asian Pacific Islanders for Human Rights (APIHR) and previously helped create TrikoneLA and Queer Awaaz. He has also served as a co-chair of the API HIV/AIDS Caucus in Los Angeles and as a Board Member for Immigration Equality-LA of the Lesbian and Gay Immigrations Rights Task Force and Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council. Micah Carvalho hoku@stanfordalumni.org Mr. Carvalho is currently an independent consultant focusing on public policy issues relating to health disparities among minority communities and social justice. He has served as Health Policy Advocate for the LA Gay and Lesbian Center and the Research and Policy Fellow at the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lebian Task Force, where his work focused on Census research, LGBT health, domestic partnership education and racial and economic justice. Sapna Pandya, MPH spandya@psi.org Ms. Pandya completed her Masters in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology/Biostatistics from the George Washington University in 2001. She has designed research and participated in outreach work with the gay community in Mumbai, India, and has been working at Population Services International (PSI), a non-profit health social marketing company since 2001.

Cancer

Nadia Islam; Nadeem Zojwalla, MD

Nadia Islam, nsi3@columbia.edu Ms. Islam is the South Asian Outreach Coordinator for NY AANCART and a doctoral student in the Division of Sociomedial Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. Through her work with AANCART, Ms. Islam has been actively involved in building a sustainable network of community-based organizations, health professionals, and activists to conduct health research in the South Asian community. Naseem Zojwalla, MD naszojwalla@hotmail.com Dr. Zojwalla is a National Cancer Institue Training Fellow at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. She recently completed her residency in Internal Medicine and began a Clinical Oncology Fellowship at Columbia in July 2002.

Cardiovascular Disease

Susan L. Ivey, MD, MHSA; Meenakshi Khatta, MS, CRNP; Rajesh Vedanthan, MS, MPH, MD

Susan L. Ivey, MD, MHSA slivey@socrates.berkeley.edu Dr. Ivey is a family physician engaged in prevention research with a focus on disparities in health, particulary, in immigrant communities. She is currently conducting a study of cardiovascular risks among Asian Indians in 3 communities in California. Meenakshi Khatta, MS, CRNP Mkhatta@medicine.umaryland.edu Ms. Khatta is a cardiology Nurse Practitioner at University of Maryland Medical System. Her interests include the prevention of cardiovascular diseases among South Asians. Rajesh Vedanthan, MD, MPH, MS rajesh_vedanthan@alum.swarthmore.edu Dr. Vedanthan recently received his MD from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; his residency in Internal Medicine is at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. He is a co-founder of the Swasthya Community Health Partnership in Sringeri, India.

Diabetes

Swapnil Rajpathak, MBBS, D.Diabetology, MPH; Pinaki Mukherji, MD

Swapnil Rajpathak, MBBS, D.Diabetology, MPH srajpath@hsph.harvard.edu Dr. Rajpathak is a physician from India, with training in care of people with diabetes. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Harvard School of Public Health, focusing in the area of prevention of diabetes. Pinaki Mukherji, MD piktu@yahoo.com Dr. Mukherji is a practicing emergency physician in Queens, NY and is an Assistant Professor of Emergency and Internal Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, campus for Albert Einstein Medical School. His interests include fly-fishing, 14th century German literature and sarcasm as sport.

HIV/AIDS

Linda L. Groetzinger, AM

Linda Groetzinger, AM lgroet1@uic.edu Ms. Groetzinger is a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago researching HIV/AIDS among people of South Asian heritage in the US. In the future she plans to teach cross-cultural practice in social work and public health, and work in the field of reproductive health and HIV in the US and South Asia

Intimate Partner Violence

Jhumka Gupta, MPH; Ushma D. Upadhyay, MPH

Jhumka Gupta, MPH jhumpkag@hotmail.com Ms. Gupta is a public health fellow at the Office on Women's Health within the US Department of Health and Human Services. She has worked both nationally and internationally to help promote the health and lives of women and their communities. Ushma D. Upadhyay, MPH ushma@jhu.edu Ms. Upadhyay is a research writer on international reproductive health issues and a PhD candidate in Women's Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a former volunteer for Sakhi for South Asian Women.

Mental Health

Meera Rastogi, Phd.; V. Suthakaran, MA

Meera Rastogi, PhD MRastogi@edgewood.edu Dr. Rastogi is an assistant professor of psychology at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. Since completing a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the Ohio State University in June 2001, Dr. Rastogi continues to work with and explore mental health issues within the South Asian and Asian American communities. V. Suthakaran, MA Veerasamy.1@nd.edu Mr. Suthakaran is a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently competing his internship at the University of Notre Dame, and he conducts research in the area of ethnic/racial and religious identities.

Nutrition

Satya S. Jonnalagadda, PhD, RD; Sadhna Diwan, PhD, LCSW

Satya S. jonnalagadda, PhD, RD NADSSJ@langate.gsu.edu Dr. Jonnalagadda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. The focus of her research is on diet, chronic disease prevention and treatment and she is currently conducting research on factors influencing the health and well-being of Asian India immigrants. Sadhana Diwan, PhD, LCSW SWOSSD@langate.gsu.edu Dr. Diwan is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Fellow of the Gerontology Center at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. The focus of her research is aging and health care and she is currently researching factors influencing health and well-being of Asian Indian immigrants.

Substance Abuse

Shilpa N. Patel, MPH

Shilpa Patel, MPH spatel@apiahf.org Ms. Patel is an Analyst at the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) in San Francisco. Her public health interests include HI/AIDS and substance abuse issues among communities of color.

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