Laxmisupriya Avadhanula, MPH
Laxmisupriya Avadhanula is an MPH graduate from Drexel University concentrating in Community Health and Prevention. A native of Bear, Delaware she currently lives in Philadelphia. Supriya graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, minor in Chemistry & French, and certificates in Global Health & Conceptual Foundations in Medicine. Her professional experiences have included serving as a Programs Coordinator at St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children, serving with AmeriCorps as an International Patient Resource Specialist at Squirrel Hill Health Center FQHC, and doing refugee and immigrant youth and adult empowerment at ARYSE and various resettlement agencies. Supriya has also participated on various research teams, exploring social determinants of health impacting marginalized communities, as a research assistant, including publishing a systematic literature review in the Frontiers in Public Health journal. Additionally, she has built a trauma-informed and culturally empowering English Curriculum for adult refugee women in Pittsburgh. She is currently a member of Student Emerging Leaders in Public Health.
Her passion lies in reducing the barriers by developing structural policy interventions that lie within members of low-income, women and communities of color while improving their health and well-being.
Laxmisupriya Avadhanula is an MPH graduate from Drexel University concentrating in Community Health and Prevention. A native of Bear, Delaware she currently lives in Philadelphia. Supriya graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, minor in Chemistry & French, and certificates in Global Health & Conceptual Foundations in Medicine. Her professional experiences have included serving as a Programs Coordinator at St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children, serving with AmeriCorps as an International Patient Resource Specialist at Squirrel Hill Health Center FQHC, and doing refugee and immigrant youth and adult empowerment at ARYSE and various resettlement agencies. Supriya has also participated on various research teams, exploring social determinants of health impacting marginalized communities, as a research assistant, including publishing a systematic literature review in the Frontiers in Public Health journal. Additionally, she has built a trauma-informed and culturally empowering English Curriculum for adult refugee women in Pittsburgh. She is currently a member of Student Emerging Leaders in Public Health.
Her passion lies in reducing the barriers by developing structural policy interventions that lie within members of low-income, women and communities of color while improving their health and well-being.