Rima Pai

Biography


Rima Pai is a first-year Global Health and Development PhD student at the Rollins School of Public Health. Before joining Emory, she obtained her medical degree at the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in India. Rima graduated with a Master's in Public Health in Global Epidemiology with a certificate in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies from Emory University in 2020. After graduation, she worked as an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Global Immunization Division and the Division of HIV Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She has several years of clinical, research, and public health experience working with vulnerable populations globally in both non-communicable and infectious diseases.

Her research interests mainly include non-communicable diseases, particularly diabetes, cardiometabolic interventions, and chronic disease prevention in low-income and middle-income countries. Her current work involves collaboration with the faculty members at the EGDRC to explore the associations of cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and stroke, with accelerated brain aging and dementia in the Precision-CARRS cohort.

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Rima Pai