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Leen is a resident physician in the combined Brigham & Women’s-Massachusetts General Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Program at Harvard. She graduated Cum Laude from Harvard College in 2018, where she pursued a rigorous curriculum in Molecular and Cellular Biology, with a secondary concentration...

Dr. Sarrah Shahawy is an obstetrician-gynecologist clinician, researcher, and educator at Harvard Medical School and BIDMC. She is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Muslim Reproductive and Global Health Engagement Research Lab (MeRGE). She holds a Medical Degree from Harvard Medical...

Elizabeth is a sophomore at Harvard University studying Anthropology & Medicine with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She currently serves as a Student Researcher with the MeRGE Lab. Her experiences range from advancing menstrual equity in Tanzania to supporting women’s health...

Lobna Raya, MSEd, graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Religious Studies and a minor in Bioethics. Following her undergraduate studies, she joined Teach For America, where she taught high school students and earned her Master of Science in Education from Johns Hopkins...

Sarah Pitafi is a third year medical student at Harvard highly interested in women's health and health policy/advocacy. Previously, she studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale, and obtained an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Health as a Fulbright Scholar. Outside the lab, she is...

Rasa Forati is a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a recent graduate of Harvard Medical School. Born and raised in Iran until the age of 7, she is especially passionate about advocacy for reproductive health equity and justice for women around the world...

Neirja Mehta recently graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience. Curious about understanding the clinical aspects of women’s health, Neirja is currently working as a Medical Secretary/Assistant at an Outpatient OB/GYN Medical Clinic in New York City. Growing up...

Shreetoma joined the MERGE Lab in September 2025 as a postdoctoral research fellow, contributing to research on how religion and culture shape reproductive healthcare decisions in different communities. She earned her MBBS in India in 2023 and has worked as a clinical physician and a medical...

Roya Ahmadi is a recent graduate of Stanford University where she studied Human Biology with a self-designed concentration in Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Women's Health and a minor in Interdisciplinary Arts. Her primary interests are in Muslim and SWANA women's sexual and reproductive...