Priya Shankar, MD, MPH
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priya.shankar@ucsf.edu 415-476-5001
Dr. Shankar is a physician with a passion for gender justice, intersectional feminism, reproductive and mental health, and health equity. She is a graduate of the UCSF Pediatric Leaders for the Underserved Residency Program and also is the co-founder of the award-winning organization called Girls Health Champions which fights gender bias by training youth globally as gender and health peer educators.
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She was a former Fulbright-Nehru Scholar to India from 2009 to 2010 and a Fogarty-NIH fellow from 2020 to 2022 where she focused on global adolescent health.
Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland's Federally Qualified Health Center in teen, school-based health, and primary care. She is also a faculty member with the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health.
Awards
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- Chancellor's Award for Public Service, University of California, San Francisco, 2020
- UCSF Pediatric Residency Grossman Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2020
Education & Training
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- Global teen health Fogarty NIH fellowship in Global Health 07/2022
- MD MD Boston University School of Medicine 05/2017
- MPH MPH Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 05/2016
- BA Political Science, South Asian Studies University of Pennsylvania 05/2009
Publications (8)
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Reproductive HealthChild BehaviorSelf-Help GroupsMalnutritionHealth EducationCurriculumFood SupplyAdolescent HealthSchool Health ServicesForecastingPeer GroupGender IdentityIndiaSexual and Gender MinoritiesAchievement
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Codeveloping an Adolescent Health Program in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Community-Partnered Responsive Feedback Approach.
Global health, science and practice 2023 Sharma R, Danish M, Khajenoori Y, Shaikh D, Chaudary Y, Khan H, Bhat N, Doshi A, Nalawade S, Rajput P, Shahi S, Shankar P -
Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices in New Delhi, India
Postgraduate Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2022 Priya Shankar, Stephen R Kodish, Farah Meraj Khanam, Sheila Isanaka -
Hidden in plain sight: mental health in India
The Lancet Psychiatry 2022 Priya Shankar, Arjun Shankar -
Youth Advisory Boards During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Theory to Practice in a Global Health Setting.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2022 Shankar P, Khan H, Shaikh D, Chaudhary Y, Bhat N, Nannapaneni A, Sanghavi R, Sood R, Vakharia I, Sharma R -
Decolonising gender in India.
The Lancet. Global health 2021 Shankar P, Rajaraman BK, Shaikh A, Patel P, Nannapaneni A, Sharma S, Sharma R, Sarkar A, Pemde H -
India's adolescents: taking charge of the future.
The Lancet. Child & adolescent health 2021 Bhat N, Shankar P -
Evaluating the Impact of a School-Based Youth-Led Health Education Program for Adolescent Females in Mumbai, India.
Annals of global health 2020 Shankar P, Sievers D, Sharma R -
Association of Food Insecurity with Children's Behavioral, Emotional, and Academic Outcomes: A Systematic Review.
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP 2017 Shankar P, Chung R, Frank DA