{"id":823,"date":"2026-04-09T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=823"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:49:52","slug":"manasa-sivakumar","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/profile\/manasa-sivakumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Manasa Sivakumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manasa Sivakumar is a 2026 CTMH Student Fellow<br \/>\nProject: &#8220;Stronger Together: Total Wellness for Elders&#8221;<br \/>\nMentor: Samara Grossman, LICSW<\/p>\n<p><span>Manasa is a Master of Public Health (MPH) student at BU, with certificates in Epidemiology &amp; Biostatistics; Global Health Program Design, Monitoring &amp; Evaluation; and Chronic and Non-communicable Diseases. She earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree, also in Public Health, from the University of Waterloo.\u00a0Her work focuses on chronic and non-communicable diseases, with particular interests in aging, gerontology, and neurodegenerative diseases. She has a background in both quantitative and qualitative research, and is committed to translating data and lived experiences into actionable, equitable public health solutions<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25441,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/823\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}