Ada Thapa, MPH, is a Senior Research Assistant at the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In that role, she focuses mainly in the qualitative analysis of the continuous glucose monitoring trial.

Thapa completed her MPH in health policy analysis and evaluation, with a global health certificate from the University of Maryland, College Park. During her MPH program, she interned with the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival project of Save the Children, where she oversaw the qualitative analysis for a key pilot project in Mozambique called Our First Baby.

Following her graduation, Thapa worked in the Global Mental Health Equity lab at George Washington University as a Research Assistant and performed qualitative analysis for the Gates STAND STRONG project. For more than two years, she also worked as a Research Associate at Health Foundation Nepal on its Non-Communicable Disease project.