Kavita Batra

Dr. Kavita Batra serves as a Biomedical Statistician with the School of Medicine since October, 2020. She also assists Nevada Department of Health and Human Services in COVID-19 response and vaccination efforts. Dr. Batra recently created a public facing dashboard for Influenza vaccination coverage rates in Nevada. Related to her teaching experience, she teaches several public health and general education courses, including Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Human Anatomy, and Physiology. Dr. Batra received her Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in May 2020. Her research focuses on maternal and child health, particularly drug-exposed neonates. Her dissertation was aimed to assess the health and financial burden of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Nevada. During 2019-2020, She was a successful candidate to participate in the final rounds of the Rebel Grad Slam. Dr. Batra is a UNLV Medallion recipient and a Graduate College Finishing Fellow due to her exceptional involvement in the graduate studies. She served the Graduate Professional Students’Association for three years (2017-2020). Dr. Batra is an expert in qualitative and quantitative research and presented her work in several state and national public health conferences. She is currently leading several research projects to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on mental health across different demographic and workforce groups. Dr. Batra also served as a panelist for the Center for Evidence-based Policy in the Medicaid Evidence-Based Decisions Project discussion on the racial disparities of COVID-19. Dr. Batra serves as UNLV Alumni Ambassador and a member of Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society Delta Theta Chapter of UNLV. Currently, she serves as a guest editor at the Healthcare journal for a special issue on COVID-19. Besides, she serves on the reviewer panel of the Signa Vitae journal.