Ruchita is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
She graduated from Princeton University in 2019 with a degree in Molecular Biology and minors in Engineering Biology and Global Health and Health Policy, and additionally received an MPhil in Veterinary Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2021. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Fellowship to identify novel methods to conduct antimicrobial resistance surveillance in India, and was a research assistant in the epidemiology department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, developing mathematical models to quantify the impact of preventative interventions on TB and HIV transmission. Her current interests are in digital health governance and understanding who gets including or excluded in data streams.