Sahana Narayan

Biography:

Sahana Narayan, MS, MSPH is an award-winning researcher, evaluator, academic, and journalist. She has worked at Columbia University Medical Center and Harvard Medical School conducting research on obstetrics and gynecology practices. She holds a Master of Science from Harvard Medical School where she specialized in obstetric violence, leading to the founding of The 11 Seconds Magazine, a women’s health medical humanities magazine. She also holds a Master of Science in Public Health from Columbia University, where she was recognized for work on the vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) clinical algorithm. Sahana is extremely passionate about how public health and narrative humility can further the work of academic research and clinical medicine, especially as it pertains to women's health. She hopes to further this mission through an eventual career in medicine as an OB/GYN, through health journalism and narrative work, and through integrating public health and the humanities in medical education.