Akshita Siddula, MSPH

Community Organizer

Baltimore, Maryland

United States, North America

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Cohort Year:

2021

Bio

Akshita Siddula is a public health professional based in Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently serving as the Managing Director with Right to Health Action (R2HA), a health advocacy group. In this role, she recruits and trains healthcare activists and organizers around the country to push for policies to create a just healthcare system. Akshita hopes to cultivate and mobilize a new generation of leaders with the skills to invite others into this movement for shared action and fight for health justice in their local communities. Before joining R2HA she was a contractor with the CDC and USAID. She holds an MS in Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and a BS and BA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Professional Interests & Expertise

Advocacy,Coaching and Mentoring,Community Health,Community Organizing,Gender Equity,Health Workforce,Journalism and Storytelling,Policy/Advocacy,Program Development,Public Health,Research, Measurement, and Evaluation

Organization

Right To Health Action

Learn more about Akshita's work:

Opinion Piece

The fight over domestic COVID funding is holding back global vaccination

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