Amisha Paul

Amisha is a senior at UConn (CLAS ’22) pursuing a B.S. in Physiology and Neurobiology and B.A. in Economics, with minors in Global Studies and Anthropology of Global Health. On-campus, she serves as the Executive Director of UConn Global Health Spaces on Campus, organizing UConn’s annual Global Health Symposium and Hackathon in efforts to encourage campus-wide awareness and dialogue surrounding current challenges and progress in global health. She has also been recognized as a UN Foundation Global Health Fellow and a Millennium Fellow. Amisha is also the co-founder of GloHub, a web platform that seeks to democratize access to global health education, resources, and community. She is engaged in developmental neurobiology research on campus in Conover Lab as well as in health economics research. Amisha also serves as a Trip Director with UConn Community Outreach’s Alternative Breaks Program. She volunteers with the Mobility is Medicine program at Hartford Hospital and conducts social determinants of health and health literacy screenings at UConn Health. Amisha enjoys performing as a trained Odissi dancer and promoting Indian classical arts on campus in her role as Co-President of Sanskriti, UConn’s Indian Classical Arts collaborative. She also enjoys traveling, learning new skills, and collecting stories. Amisha is interested in understanding the incredibly large and inequitable impact climate change has on the health of our communities. She is attending COP26 in hopes of learning more about the impact of climate change on health, understanding what international conversations in this space look like, and better preparing herself to advocate for climate action for human health to local and national leaders.