In my career, I aim to improve the prognosis and treatment strategies for non-communicable diseases by delivering innovative, patient-centered health solutions to low-resource settings where they are most needed worldwide. I first matriculated to California State University, Los Angeles, as a psychology and biology dual major when I was 14 years old; and spent several years researching the genetic and hormonal factors contributing to sex differences in disease risk and outcome. In 2014, I entered the biological anthropology PhD program at Emory University. During my Ph.D., I have investigated how HIV amplifies the effect of trauma on PTSD symptomatology and neurobiology, using locally adapted measures of mental health and robust psychophysiological measures of stress reactivity, in Hanoi, Vietnam. From February 2021 to August 2022, I worked on designing and launching a birth cohort study among Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, with the Global TIES team at NYU to understand the impact of parental trauma exposure and mental health on child developmental outcomes. Starting August 2022, I will be joining the Harvard School of Public Health as a postdoctoral research fellow. Of continued interest to me is the development/adaptation of culturally validated mental health measures for vulnerable populations in humanitarian settings and the application of novel technologies to understand the developmental course of mental illness and to better intervene.