Udara Perera

Udara Perera is a seasoned public health professional currently serving as a Senior Program Officer at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine since May 2023. Prior experience includes leadership roles such as Director at the National Quality Forum, where responsibilities encompassed strategic oversight from September 2020 to April 2023, and involvement with the American Public Health Association as Maternal and Child Health Section Councilor from September 2019 to September 2022. Udara Perera has also contributed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has held various positions at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, including Graduate Research Assistant and Project Coordinator. Educational qualifications comprise a Doctor of Public Health from Drexel University with a focus on Community Health and Prevention, a Master of Public Health from George Mason University, and dual Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Biology and Interdisciplinary Studies, complemented by a minor in Psychology.