Himi begins her doctoral training (DrPH) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health after a versatile experience in healthcare as a dentist, healthcare quality and safety expert, and entrepreneur impacting care delivery and outcomes. Himi holds a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) from Government Dental College, India, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Health Policy and Management from Boston University School of Public Health.

She is currently working in a leadership position at Boston Children’s Hospital and leading multiple enterprise-level strategic initiatives to impact the quality of care and reduce patient harm. During the doctoral program, she plans to expand her work at the nexus of systems thinking, healthcare quality, and patient safety. Her objectives are to translate systems thinking theories and conceptual models into novel frameworks to help transform organizations from reactive problem-solving to proactive self-learning systems, particularly at the time of internal or external crisis