Epidemiologist
Atlanta, Georgia

Priya Mehta-Gupta Das 15PH 24PhD works to advance maternal and child nutrition surveillance. Her journey to public health leadership began with personal experience: Left as an infant outside an orphanage in India, she transformed early vulnerability into a lifelong commitment to improving maternal and child health.

Over her career as an epidemiologist, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education fellow, and doctoral researcher, Mehta-Gupta Das has authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed publications, including three first-author papers from her dissertation with the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance network, which examined the impact of malnutrition on child mortality in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Her resilience and dedication were tested during her doctoral studies when she successfully overcame advanced-stage brain cancer, defended her dissertation, and graduated alongside her cohort. 

She remains deeply engaged at Emory by mentoring students, serving on the advisory committee for the Rollins School of Public Health Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, practicing mindfulness with the Emory Buddhist Club, and fundraising for Winship Cancer Institute. Through her work and personal journey, Mehta-Gupta Das exemplifies research excellence, leadership, service, and extraordinary perseverance.