Dr. Mondira Ray is a pediatrician and aspiring health informatician. After studying economics and religion at Swarthmore College, her fascination with human behavior and societal structures culminated in a career path to medicine. She completed the pre-medical requirements at Bryn Mawr College’s Postbaccalaureate Pre-Medical Program, received her Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and recently graduated from pediatric residency at the University of Washington in 2022. Through several prestigious research training awards, she has developed expertise in computational biology and data science, and is passionate about improving the accessibility and usability of health data to improve the health of children, particularly in marginalized communities. After her Fulbright-Nehru project, she plans to attend a fellowship in Clinical Informatics.
Although India has made progress in improving its staggering rates of maternal and child mortality and morbidity, wide regional variation remains. Key to addressing these disparities is the digitalization of health records. At this time, only a fraction of primary care centers in India uses an electronic health record (EHR). The primary aims of Dr. Ray’s Fulbright-Nehru project are to support the continued evolution of EHR and to develop a resource to help community health organizations adopt their own EHR platform.