Pal Shah
Ms. Shah is a 2017 graduate of the UCSF masters program in Global
Health Sciences. Her master’s capstone project was titled “Sugar
Quoted: An Analysis Of Industry Framing to Oppose the Tax on Sugar-
Sweetened Beverages in South Africa”. As an undergraduate, she
majored in Physiological Sciences at UCLA, graduating in 2016. She is
currently a Research Analyst with the UCSF Division of HIV, Infection
Disease and Global Medicine, working on food insecurity, climate
change and HIV research. In the past, she has worked on national
nutritional policies at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and
has served as a course facilitator for the UCSF global health masters
program and UCSF-UCB joint online MPH program, assisting in the
global health foundations, policy, epidemiology, ethics and economics
courses. Her interests are in nutrition epidemiology and policy, global
health ethics and education.