Pooja Agrawal

Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH, is an **Associate Professor** in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and **Associate Director of Faculty Affairs & Sponsorship**. She also serves as **Director of Global Health Education** and holds affiliations with the Yale Institute for Global Health and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Her expertise lies at the intersection of emergency medicine and global health, with a focus on refugee and displaced populations.

Education:

• BA, Cornell University (2000)
• MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (2006)
• MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2012)

Research Interests: Dr. Agrawal studies health impacts of forced migration, including refugee resettlement challenges in the U.S. Her work emphasizes improving healthcare access, health literacy, and long-term outcomes for displaced populations. She also investigates intersections of climate change, food security, and gender-based violence.

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Reid Lab for Innovation in Population Health, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Leadership: Past-President of the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine; elected Member-at-Large of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM); Board Member of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS).