Volunteers

Neha Singh
Program Officer

Neha Singh is currently pursing a Master in Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Education with an emphasis on global health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As a Foreign Language Area Studies fellow, she is also focusing her studies on East Africa and studying Kiswahili. Neha graduated with a BA in Third World Studies from the University of California, San Diego where she won an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Paper award for examining the politics and culture of the South Asian community in Uganda. While in San Diego, she also worked with Somali refugees as a volunteer for the International Rescue Committee. After graduation, she moved to Northern California to work for Heart to Heart International Children’s Medical Alliance, an organization working to building capacity to provide sustainable cardiac care to children in rural Russia.

In the summer of 2007, Neha received the James and Florence Peacock Fellowship and the Center for Global Initiatives Internship Award to spend ten weeks working with Carolina for Kibera. During the course of her stay, she worked in the Tabitha Clinic and developed a program to reduce malnutrition in children under the age of five.