Nisha Kumar

Nisha Kumar, MPP (she/her) is the Program Manager for the Community Data Health Initiative (CDHI), leading CDHI for the Data-Smart City Solutions team at The Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. With partners at the Environmental Defense Fund and African American Mayors Association, she supports city leaders in using municipal levers to address health disparities brought on by environmental pollutants. She currently oversees projects on air pollution and extreme heat in Baltimore, the District of Columbia (DC), and Baton Rouge. She brings expertise in public health and has worked on Medicare policy at the federal level, Medicaid behavioral health policy with the state of California, and now local public health initiatives with CDHI. Kumar holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.