Aashaka Shinde

Aashaka Shinde is a skilled research associate currently working at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine since October 2020, focusing on population health and public health practice. Previously, Aashaka served as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where responsibilities included developing cognitive interviewing guides, supporting survey enumerator trainings, and analyzing qualitative data. Experience as a vector control technician at Lake County Health Department involved vector population tracking and database management, while a research internship at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar included conducting literature reviews and logistic regression modeling on substance abuse studies. Aashaka holds a Master of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Master of Arts in Society and Culture from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, and a Bachelor of Science in Lifescience from St. Xavier's College.