Punam Parikh

Punam Parikh, MPH, PMP, serves as a Research Project Manager at Kaiser Permanente since May 2023. With extensive experience in project management, Parikh has held significant roles at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA since March 2011, including Project Manager and Assistant to Grant Writer at KK Grantworks. Previous positions include Project Manager and Research Associate at UCLA, where responsibilities included managing funded health services research studies and supporting not-for-profit hospitals in program planning. Parikh also has managed a randomized-controlled trial at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and conducted evaluations of health promotion programs at Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences. Parikh holds a Master of Public Health degree in Community Health Sciences from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Physiological Sciences from UCLA.