Usma Khan, MS

Usma Khan is a Research Analyst at the Prevention and Public Health Group. She initially joined PPHG as the project manager for an NIH-funded HIV behavioral prevention study based in Mumbai. She has now moved on to work on HIV program evaluations and triangulation projects funded by the CDC. She was also the one of the lead authors of a systematic review of HIV behavioral prevention interventions focusing on women of color in the United States.

Prior to joining PPHG, Usma worked as a Planner at a community-based organization in East Oakland called La Clínica de La Raza, Inc. In this position she helped develop health education, HIV, and adolescent health programs to serve community needs. She wrote many successful grants that funded these programs. She also worked as an International Health Officer at the Office of Global Health Affairs, at the US Department of Health and Human Services in Washington DC, where she assisted in developing and writing US health policies for various multilateral organizations.

Usma received her BS in environmental science from the University of California, Berkeley. She went on to receive her MS in environmental health, with an emphasis in maternal and child health and international health from Harvard University.

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