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Ankita Mohan

Graduate Student
Research Area: Clinical Science


Social and Environmental Determinants of Health, Neurodevelopment, Psychopathology

Ankita is a graduate student in the Vanderbilt University Clinical Science Doctoral Program working with Dr. Jonathan Schaefer. She is interested in the social and environmental factors that influence neurodevelopment and behavioral health. As a doctoral student, she hopes to continue to pursue work that seeks to bridge the gap between research, policy, and practice. 

Ankita has a B.A. in Public Policy, with a focus on health policy from William & Mary, and a MHS in Social Factors of Health, with a focus in Public Mental Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her previous work has explored the relationships between factors such as air pollution and cognitive decline, nutrition and behavioral health, housing and mental health, and food security and autism severity.

Representative Publications

  • Roberts, Jody and Mohan, Ankita. “Housing In Delaware for the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Population.” Delaware Journal of Public Health, vol. 9, no. 2, June 2023, Doi: 10.32481/djph.2023.06.007
  • Dickerson, Aisha; Frndak, Seth.; DeSantiago, Melissa.; Mohan, Ankita.; Smith, Gene (2023). Environmental Exposure Disparities and Neurodevelopmental Risk: a Review. Current environmental health reports, 10.1007/s40572-023-00396-6. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-023-00396-6
  • Dickerson, Aisha; Frndak, Seth; Gorski-Steiner, Irena; Deng, Zhengyi; Jenson, Tara; Mohan, Ankita; Kim, Jake; Boerner, Verne; Thorpe, Roland. Outdoor Air Pollution, Environmental Injustice, and Cognitive Decline: a Review. Curr Epidemiol Rep (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-023-00326-y
  • Mohan, Ankita, and Roberts, Jody. “Accommodating Developmental Disabilities in the Social Determinants of Health: A Brief Inquiry into the Applicability of Metrics to the Lives of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Delaware.” Delaware Journal of Public Health, vol. 8, no. 2, May 2022, doi:10.32481/djph.2022.05.006.