Nisha Kumar

Nisha Kumar leads the Harvard Bloomberg Center’s Community Data Health Initiative (CDHI). 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, D.C., 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. She 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.