Anushka Aqil

Education: PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; MPH from Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; BA in Women & Gender Studies and Health: Science, Society & Policy from Brandeis University

Recent projects include: The Raben Group, Tisch College

Personal interests include: Cooking, hiking with my pit bulls, reading fantasy fiction, and traveling

Anushka Aqil’s doctoral research focused on how anti-oppressive principles can be incorporated into public health teaching and practice.

Anushka is also an adjunct professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Instructor at Johns Hopkins University where she teaches on various topics of public health. Previously, Anushka coordinated research projects that focused on understanding health, social and service needs of transgender and non-binary communities as well as building a text-messaging program to support first time fathers across the Baltimore-metropolitan area.

Anushka is committed to facilitating ways to utilize anti-oppressive principles to further social justice practices and policies in public health pedagogy, research, and practice.

Anushka holds a PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a MPH from the Rollins School of Public Health from Emory University and a BA in Women & Gender Studies and Health: Science, Society & Policy from Brandeis University.