Onisha Etkins is a Ph.D. student studying Population Health Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Broadly, Onisha is interested in exploring public health inequities as it relates to race and ethnicity. She is studying mental health in U.S. Caribbean immigrant communities and Black immigrant communities generally. Onisha's work is influenced by her own upbringing as a first generation Guyanese-American and growing up in a predominantly Caribbean immigrant community. Onisha is originally from Brooklyn, New York and received a Master's of Science in Community Health and Prevention Research ('17) and a BA in Science, Technology, and Society ('16) at Stanford University. As a summer fellow, she will be working with the Just Public Finance program to understand and address public health disparities related to water insecurity in the Detroit, Michigan area.
