Prithi Chandra | Global Health Corps

Prithi Chandra

Prithi

Co-fellow

Mehreen

Mehreen Shahid

Placement Country: United States
Title: Health Transformation Program Associate
I am a GHC fellow because I am energized by being a part of a community of minds with shared values and a shared vision of a future of health equity. I feel that being a GHC fellow brings this future within closer reach as it creates an environment for shared learning among my peers that leverages each of our individual strengths and knowledge to have a greater impact on the challenges we're hoping to solve for our local, national, and global communities.

Prithi Chandra is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since completing her studies in 2011, she has worked at a boutique consulting firm, providing strategic planning and resource development to Philadelphia-area nonprofits and government agencies. Prithi has worked with her team to develop Philadelphia’s Shared Prosperity Plan, which has created routes to address economic inequality citywide, successfully pursued a multi-million dollar grant from the CDC to fund breast cancer support programming for young women in the region and developed strategies to address poverty, empower the community and attract investment to Philadelphia’s federally-designated Promise Zone. As an undergraduate at New York University, she majored in history and minored in Spanish. While at NYU, Prithi worked at NYU’s archives, which specialized in leftist and labor movements. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering at Books through Bars in West Philadelphia, a grassroots program providing books to prisoners.