Emily Ma

Emily Ma is a first-year Ph.D student in the Department of Health Policy and Management, with a concentration in Economics. Her research interests include noncommunicable diseases prevention in global settings with vulnerable populations, and the role of upstream social and economic policies in improving population health. She holds an MPH and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Brown University. Prior to joining Yale, she worked as a research associate at a non-profit incubator in Hong Kong, Voyage Limited (formerly Global Development Incubator East Asia), supporting the impact evaluation of a poverty alleviation program in transitional housing. She worked as a assistant researcher in a policy think tank, Our Hong Kong Foundation, where she conducted research on health financing in primary care.

ORCID ID: 0009-0000-1274-8436