Elina Pradhan is a doctoral student at the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is interested in population health policy modeling, evaluation and design in resource-limited settings. Born and raised in Nepal, she currently works in a wide range of projects including the impact of conditional cash transfers on female education and early marriage in Haryana (India), evaluation of post-partum IUD services in Nepal, and mathematical models of the population-level health impact of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. She holds an S.B. in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an S.M. in Global Health and Population from the Harvard Chan School.