Arthi Kozhumam, MScGH

Ms. Kozhumam is a second-year MD-PhD student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine with a PhD focus in injury epidemiology, emergency medicine health systems research, and implementation science. Prior to medical school, she completed BS and MS degrees in global health at Duke University, with research focusing on pediatric mental health and time-sensitive conditions. During her PhD, Ms. Kozhumam aims to apply epidemiologic and geographic information systems analysis tools to local and global injury data and learn implementation science methods to inform an adaptable intervention across resource settings to reduce disparities in child injury. Through the SAEM/RAMS Medical Student Research Grant, she is working with Dr. Michelle Macy of Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to understand child passenger restraint appropriateness and relationships to individual- and population-level socio-demographic characteristics among children who received emergency and urgent care in Chicago. The long-term goal of this study is to identify family- and ecological-factors associated with child passenger safety to inform targeted deployment of a tailored intervention to promote child passenger safety best practices. Funding awarded through this SAEMF Medical Student Grant will allow Ms. Kozhumam to develop the technical skills needed for analyses, biostatistical consultation, and travel to present findings.