Shruti Parthasarathy, MPH

Founder, Mindful Kala | Pediatric Mental Health | BS/MPH Yale

United States

About

Experience

  • Health Admin Fellow | Leadership, Strategy, Management at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Administrative Fellow at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, a top-ranked academic pediatric health system; working with senior leadership on strategic initiatives across operations, growth, and care delivery.

  • Mindful Kala (6 yrs)
    • Founder
      Aug 2020 - Present · 6 yrs

      The Art of Wellbeing - creative wellbeing platform leveraging culturally grounded arts to deliver scalable, accessible mental health support for children.

    • Advanced Founders Fellowship Program, Yale - Tsai Center for Innovation (Tsai CITY)
      Jan 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Winner of StartUp Yale, Rita Wilson Prize Fund & Audience Choice Award (2x)
      Apr 2021 - Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Awarded to a top student-led venture addressing U.S. health disparities through technology.

  • Yale University (5 yrs 11 mos)
    • Graduate Student Researcher
      Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

      Research experience across clinical neuroscience and digital mental health, spanning fMRI-based PTSD research (University of Wisconsin-Madison), cognitive neuroscience of stress and memory (Yale CAMS Lab), development of digital mindfulness-based interventions for substance use, eating disorders, and pediatric populations (Yale Clinical & Affective Neuroscience Lab), and current graduate research on socioemotional neuroscience and innovative interventions (AZA Lab).

    • HAVEN Free Clinic: Food Pharmacy Executive Board Member & Behavioral Health Volunteer
      Sep 2024 - May 2025 · 9 mos

    • Yale Student Mental Health Association: Graduate Branch Founder & Chair; Prev. Undergrad Co-Director
      Sep 2022 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Mental health advocacy, policy initiatives, and resource development for the Yale community.

  • Graduate Researcher, Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine
    Jun 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

    Flourishing in Health Lab (https://www.flourishinginhealth.org/).

  • Leadership in Global Health Fellow @ IRC at International Rescue Committee
    Jun 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Yale Institute for Global Health Fellow, placed with the International Rescue Committee to lead a 27-site assessment of frontline staff wellbeing and deliver system-level recommendations to improve workforce support.