Nishat Mirza, a New Yorker originally from Bangladesh, is currently working as a Spokesperson for Columbia University School of Public Health’s COVID-19 research. She is a News Correspondent for Turkish Journal, located at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
She graduated from Boston University School of Medicine with a Masters in Medical Sciences. After graduation, she started working in Clinical Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School, recently completing a two-year project to find the risk factors of a skin infection outbreak. Throughout these endeavors, Nishat grew increasingly concerned about the impacts of climate change on the spread of diseases. Dedicated to public service and making a difference in people’s lives, Nishat has a decade of experience working with people from various ethnic backgrounds as an educator, leader, and entrepreneur.