Pooja Sangha, M.H.S.

Scientific Policy Analyst
Office of Science Policy, Planning, Evaluation, and Reporting
pooja.sangha@nih.gov
301-402-1366

Pooja Sangha is a scientific policy analyst at NIMHD’s Office of Science Policy, Planning, Evaluation, and Reporting (OSPPER). She contributes to the data, analytics, and evaluation activities of OSPPER by conducting various data analyses to assess NIH’s research in minority health and health disparities.

Previously, Ms. Sangha was a research associate at Johns Hopkins University’s International Vaccine Access Center. In this role, she developed research proposals, managed active projects, conducted qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and created dissemination materials for research findings. Her work primarily focused on assessing vaccine-related programs and policies and developing innovative tools to promote public health knowledge worldwide.

Ms. Sangha earned her Master of Health Science degree in global health economics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also has dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and psychology from Arizona State University.

Selected Publications

• Weeks, R., Sangha, P., Cooper, L., Sedoc, J., White, S., Gretz, S., ... & Bar-Zeev, N. (2023). Usability and credibility of a COVID-19 vaccine chatbot for young adults and health workers in the United States: Formative mixed methods study. JMIR Human Factors, 10, e40533. doi:10.2196/40533
• Weeks, R., Cooper, L., Sangha, P., Sedoc, J., White, S., Toledo, A., ... & Bar-Zeev, N. (2022). Chatbot-delivered COVID-19 vaccine communication message preferences of young adults and public health workers in urban American communities: Qualitative study. Journal of medical Internet research, 24(7), e38418. doi:10.2196/38418
• Gretz, S., Toledo, A., Friedman, R., Lahav, D., Weeks, R., Bar-Zeev, N., Sedoc, J., Sangha, P., Katz, Y., & Slonim, N. (2023). Benchmark data and evaluation framework for intent discovery around COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1358–1370. doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-eacl.100
• Sangha, P. & Mac McCullough, J. (2020). Trends in school-level vaccination coverage from 2015 to 2018: Increases in exemption rates and declines in herd immunity in Arizona. Vaccine, 38(25), 4071-4078. doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.04.030

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