Nima Hassan

Nima recently graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Sociology. While in college, she explored interests in development, economic inequality, and global trends in race and racism. This year she will be working with Population Services International’s East Africa office, based in Nairobi. The fact that some of the world’s citizens live decades longer and healthier lives than others is one of her biggest concerns, so she is very excited about starting work at PSI. She’s looking forward to applying both new methods (like mobile delivery of health services and social marketing) and more familiar ones (social science research) towards that end. During her fellowship, she hopes to explore the Nairobi food scene, improve her Somali (the language of her cultural heritage) and eat way more nyama choma than is wise.