About me
Dr. Megan Srinivas, the youngest woman of color elected to state-level office in Iowa, serves in the state House of Representatives (HD-30). She is an infectious disease physician and translational health policy researcher who focuses on delivering care to rural and low-resource settings. She led the first study demonstrating the impact of legislative family planning defunding on STIs and has co-led WHO projects on reproductive health access. She hosts the AMA/CDC health equity podcast, Stories of Care, and is Iowa Project ECHO’s infectious disease expert. She’s an AMA national delegate, Senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, Iowa’s National Alliance for Mental Illness board member, and Iowa Supreme Court’s Access to Justice executive committee member. She graduated from Harvard University (2009), University of Iowa Medical School (2014), Harvard School of Public Health (2014), internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University (2017), and infectious disease fellowship at University of North Carolina (2019).
