Shruthika Padhy
Shruthika Padhy is a first-year at Brown University in the Program in Liberal Medical Education, Brown’s B.S./M.D. program in conjunction with the Warren Alpert Medical School. Shruthika is passionate about understanding how systems-level factors—such as health policy, insurance design, and provider incentives—shape individual patient outcomes and access to care.
Her academic interests lie in global health, health care delivery, health policy, behavioral economics, insurance access, healthcare financing, and structural determinants of health disparities. She is also interested in developing evidence-based policy analysis and community-based interventions that improve health outcomes for diverse populations.
As a part of SUMR, Padhy will be engaged in 2 projects under the mentorship of Arnold Rosoff, Robert Field, and Anthony Orlando. For the first, she will conduct policy and financial analysis on the economic interconnections between Medicaid and other parts of the U.S. healthcare system. For her second project, she will conduct qualitative research investigating lack of diversity in genetic databases utilized for biomedical research.
Padhy is a member of the Warren Alpert Medical School Student Research Committee, Social Chair for Brown’s South Asian Student Association, and Consultant for the Collegiate Consulting Group. She also volunteers with educational organizations to expand access to learning opportunities and serves as an active 911 EMT.
Previously, she has interned in the U.S. Senate, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, and conducted clinical research at the Penn Medicine BioBank. In her free time, she loves learning languages, exploring new cafes, playing field hockey, and listening to music.