Senior Program Evaluator
Rush University Medical Center
Rebecca Dawar, MPH is a public health professional dedicated to working with underserved populations to improve health and quality of life worldwide. She currently serves as a senior program evaluator at the RUSH BMO Institute for Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center overseeing grants aimed at reducing health disparities. She has over 15 years of research experience. Her expertise is in research operations and management of large-scale, federally funded, behavioral health randomized controlled clinical trials. In 2015, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct an observational study exploring the impact of culture and socio-economic status as barriers to existing preterm care in disadvantaged people living in urban slum areas in Delhi, India. Rebecca obtained her master’s degree in public health with a focus on community health sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is certified as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher from the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
CSuE1 - Building a Foundation to Engage Health Care Leaders to Center Equity and Justice
Sunday, August 25, 2024
8:45 AM – 10:00 AM ET