

Innovation Ambassadors

Preshit Ambade
Preshit Ambade, DrPH, MHA, is an Assistant Professor of Research with a background in public health policy and physician training in an integrated system of allopathic and Ayurvedic medicine. Dr. Ambade obtained his DrPH from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona and an MHA from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. He has completed postdoctoral training at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada and Augusta University in the USA, focusing on various health policy topics. Before moving to North America, he served as a “Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow,” appointed by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to work in one of the country’s development-deficient areas. With extensive academic and non-academic experience in health policy and expertise in applied econometrics, primary and secondary data analysis, as well as program and economic evaluations, his current research focuses on workplace mental health and well-being, ageing-related health policies, healthcare financing models, and global health. He has published his research articles on these topics in several reputed public health journals.

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