Sanjanaa Seshadri earned her master of public health from Johns Hopkins University, specializing in global and humanitarian health, and a bachelor’s in public health from Texas A&M University.

Before graduate school, Seshadri worked in clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital, managing cardiovascular trials. Her experience also spans health systems analysis, global pediatric research, and community health promotion, including tobacco cessation programs in rural Texas. During her MPH program, she engaged in applied global health research through the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, examining humanitarian response coordination, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, supporting projects on the humanitarian development in Afghanistan.

Having lived in multiple countries as an Indian immigrant, Seshadri is passionate about advancing equity in health programs, and she applies human rights–based approaches to public health.