Amrutha Alibilli

Amrutha Alibilli is an avid pre-med aspirant in the Integrated Life Sciences (ILS) Honors program, majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Data Science and Spanish. She is passionate about harnessing data-driven insights to address public health disparities and foster positive community engagement. As a Big Data for Health Equity research intern, she collaborates with mentors to investigate race and gender disparities in public health outcomes, such as dementia and obesity, using social media-based machine learning models. Through the UMD Terrapin Think Tank fellowship, she partners with the Department of Health to research county-wide Hispanic mental health inequities and develop effective policy and program interventions, incorporating culturally sensitive mental health advocacy and Mental Health First Aid training. She further advances her mental health advocacy as the Finance Coordinator of Lean on Me College Park, UMD's peer-to-peer, non-crisis text line. She cherishes staying involved in the campus community as a Bioinformatics Teaching Assistant, Student Health Advisory Council member, ILS Peer Mentor Leadership Council member, and AMSA Scribe Editor-in-Chief. 

In addition, Amrutha is a member of  UMD's competitive Indian classical dance team, Moksha, where she collaboratively engages in integrating contemporary music and traditional dance styles to convey a pressing social justice theme. In 2023, their unique choreography was recognized with a 3rd place award out of hundreds of undergraduate teams in the Origins National Championship. She is eager to delve deeper into the elusive depths of Indian classical dance and explore its intersections with mental health and holistic medicine. Her commitment to academic excellence, community engagement, and mental health advocacy propels her towards a future as an empathetic physician.