Megan L. Srinivas is an American politician and physician serving as a member of the

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for the 30th district. Elected in November 2022, she assumed office on January 1, 2023.

Early life and education

Srinivas was born and raised in

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. After graduating from

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as her class's

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, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in evolutionary biology from

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. Srinivas earned a

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from the

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at the

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and a

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from the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 ...

Career

Srinivas completed an internal medicine residency at the

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and an infectious disease fellowship at the

UNC School of Medicine The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, along with combined Doctor of Medicine with Doctor of Philosophy degree and Doctor ...

. She remained at Chapel Hill as an infectious disease researcher and clinical instructor until 2022. Srinivas was elected to the

in November 2022. Srinivas was reelected for a second term in November of 2024. Srinivas was selected as a Future Caucus Innovation Fellow for the 2024 Healthcare Innovation and 2025-2026 Prenatal-to-Three cohorts for young legislators invested in building bipartisan policy to address key healthcare issues.

References

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