Hello, I'm Saloni
A dentist turned public health professional, and this is my portfolio.
What started in clinical care and community health camps across India eventually led me to ask questions that no single patient encounter could answer. My time as a Medical Officer, conducting hundreds of health interviews, made it clear that I was drawn not just to the clinical side of health but to the systems, the patterns, and the people behind them. That's what brought me to epidemiology and public health at Boston University.
Since then I've worked with longitudinal health datasets, constructed analytic files, and applied multivariable and mixed-effects regression models, building a strong foundation in epidemiologic study design, statistical modeling, and public health research methods. You'll find that work here, spanning secondary data analysis, mixed-methods research, clinical trial methodology, and vaccine policy, alongside written work in manuscript development, policy briefs, and evidence synthesis. Take a look around, and if something resonates, I'd love to connect.
My story
I didn't always know I'd end up in public health. I started as a dentist, and for a long time, that felt like the whole plan. But somewhere between treating patients, running health camps in underserved communities across India, and watching people struggle to access even the most basic care, I started asking bigger questions. Why were these gaps so persistent? Why did where someone was born determine so much about their health? Clinical care felt important, but it also felt insufficient.
Working as a Medical Officer pushed that thinking even further. I conducted over 500 health interviews over audio and video calls, and what struck me wasn't the data I was collecting. It was the people on the other end of the call. Every conversation carried a story, a context, a set of circumstances that no form could fully capture. I found myself genuinely invested in those exchanges, not just professionally, but personally. Talking to people, understanding their lives, earning their trust even briefly, that came naturally to me in a way I hadn't expected.
That's when it clicked. Public health is built on exactly that. It's not just about numbers or policies or research papers. It's about people, and the systems that either support or fail them. So I came to Boston University School of Public Health to learn how to do this work properly, to get rigorous about the methods, the evidence, and the analysis behind the questions I cared about. Since then I've worked across secondary data analysis, mixed-methods research, clinical trial methodology, and vaccine policy, with written work spanning manuscript development, policy briefs, and evidence synthesis.
One thing my professors have reinforced, and that I've come to believe deeply, is that public health is teamwork. It's about collaboration across disciplines, across cultures, across perspectives. The idea of building a career where I get to learn from people across different parts of the world, understand their realities, and contribute to something larger than any one study or report, that's what keeps me going.
This portfolio is where I document that journey.
Boston University, May 2026
MUHS, India, 2023
TB Household Contact Study · Karachi & Peshawar, Pakistan