Himaja Nagireddy

Himaja Nagireddy (she/her), originally from Acton, MA, and now based in Washington, DC, served as the 11th UNA-USA Youth Observer to the UN from 2022 to 2023. She is an incoming PhD Candidate in Health Policy at Standford University’s School of Medicine. She currently serves as a Program Manager for the Center for Excellence in Public Health Leadership at Kennedy Krieger Institute, an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Prior to this, Himaja served as the Deputy Associate Policy Director for First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the White House, Briefings Manager for the Harris-Walz campaign, and Research Fellow at the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). She graduated with an MS in Environmental Epidemiology and a concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2022, and her bachelors’ degrees in Physiology and Neurobiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Sociology, from the University of Connecticut in 2020.