UAB School of Public Health • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Care Organization and Policy
Dr. Henna Budhwani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy in the UAB School of Public Health and holds a secondary appointment in the UAB College of Arts and Science’s African American Studies program. Henna works nationally and internationally to improve health outcomes within vulnerable populations through research and public health practice. Specifically, Henna’s research agenda focuses on health disparities with an emphasis on immigrants and minorities in the United States, and women and youth abroad. She has active projects across the Caribbean and locally in HIV reduction. Over the past decade, Henna supported research and implementation endeavors in eighteen countries.
Additionally, Henna is heavily engaged in the local community. She has served as a panelist during Birmingham’s Empowerment Week in on the topic of persistent discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities and has spoken on the experience of American-born ethnic minorities at the White House-sponsored Asian American Pacific Islander Youth Summit. Henna is a member of the March of Dimes Chapter NICU Action Committee, was on the Board of Trustees for the Alabama Waldorf School, was a patron of the Birmingham Museum of Art Indian Cultural Society, worked as a crisis-helpline volunteer navigating victims of violence to safe harbor and independence, and is a contributor to The Huffington Post. Henna is a resident of Vestavia Hills and mother to six-year old twins.
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