Mentorship Pipeline

About the Program

The Opportunity for Health Lab’s Mentorship Pipeline Program provides students and trainees with valuable research experience while fostering collaboration with lab faculty to produce high-quality research papers.

The program is designed to:

Offer immersive training in health economics, epidemiology, and policy research.

Pair mentees with experienced faculty mentors to develop a portfolio of work.

Support mentees in gaining experience across project design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination.

Prepare mentees for academic, policy, or research careers

Current Mentees & Projects

Ritikaa Khanna

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Current Project

Stuckness in America

Abigail Xu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Current Project

Area-level trajectories in opportunity and mortality

Past Mentees

Shuyi Wang

Graduate Research Assistant

Program Outcomes

Mentees gain hands-on research experience in projects at various stages (from data collection to publication).

Each mentee is expected to contribute to at least one manuscript submission during their time in the program.

Opportunities to present at lab meetings and conferences with mentorship on delivering research presentations.

Join Us in Our Work

Join us in advancing research that expand social and economic opportunity, strengthen hope, and improve health for all.