- Student Assembly Chair
Anas Khurshid Nabil
Anas Khurshid Nabil is a graduate student and currently serving as the Chair of APHA's Student Assembly. Anas is a PhD student in the health education program at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. Anas completed an MPH in health services policy and management from the University of South Carolina. His doctoral research primarily concentrates on substance misuse, risk factors, associated harms, addiction science, social epidemiology, and social determinants of health. His scholarly work incorporates health behavior research, health promotion sciences, and national and state health policies related to substance use behavior, chronic disease prevention, and community-based social and behavioral interventions focused on the health of emerging adolescents and young adults. Anas has a long-standing history of proudly being affiliated with APHA and the Student Assembly. He joined the American Public Health Association as an active student member in 2020, and initially took on student volunteer positions with the Student Assembly as Campus Liaison and Membership Ambassador. Subsequently, he was promoted to External Relations Committee Co-Chair, later elected as Treasurer-Elect and Treasurer, and served in a leadership capacity on the Finance Workgroup Committee of the Student Assembly Executive Leadership Council. In previous years, Anas presented research posters and served as an abstract reviewer and film reviewer at the APHA Annual Meeting and the Public Health Film Festival. Anas believes that strategic efforts and supportive internal and external relationships are critical to cultivating and advancing organizational effectiveness, transdisciplinary collaboration, and complex system interventions. Academically and professionally, Anas considers himself a strong public health advocate for health promotion sciences, health behavior interventions, epidemiological research, public health policy, and health equity to address pressing population health issues at the regional, national, and global levels.