Priti Khanal, MPH, is a senior program officer at the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS). In this role, she leads national and state-based leadership development programs that equip Medicaid and other health and human services agency leaders with the relational and adaptive skills needed to drive meaningful, community-responsive transformation in health care delivery. She serves as faculty and contributes to curriculum design, translating leadership theory and health policy into applied learning experiences for agency leaders. In addition to her leadership development work at CHCS, Priti has managed projects focused on improving maternal health outcomes.

Prior to joining CHCS, Priti served as a public health officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she worked on mitigating international travel-based communicable disease risk and building partnerships to enhance emergency preparedness and response in New Jersey communities. Priti also supported projects for the New Jersey Department of Health on novel influenza workforce training and public education.

Priti also worked in clinical operations management at University of California, San Francisco Medical Center’s family planning services, where she gained an intimate perspective on the provider-patient experience, especially related to care coordination for low-income patients.

Priti holds a master’s degree in public health from Rutgers School of Public Health, where she concentrated in epidemiology. She earned her bachelor’s degree in public health and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University — Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Douglass Residential College.

In her spare time, Priti loves to travel and is an outdoor and adventure enthusiast. She enjoys hiking, camping, biking, paddle boarding, picnicking, taking nature walks, sitting by a bonfire, or just basking in the sun.