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Preeti P. Zanwar, PhD, MPH, MS (she/her/hers)

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, United States

Preeti Pushpalata Zanwar is a health economist/health services researcher and scholar in aging. She is a member of NIA funded Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America, an interdisciplinary group of scientists at the forefront of research on the social determinants of U.S. population health and health disparities. She is Co-PI on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant with Cochrane US Network on centering racial health equity with Patricia C. Heyn, Ph.D., FGSA, FACRM as PI.

She has served as a grant reviewer for the Social and Behavioral Sciences Standing Committee for the U.S. National Institutes on Aging at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA. Her research has been published in scholarly peer-reviewed journals such as the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Public Policy & Aging Report, AJPM Focus, and Disability and Health among others. She has served and supported various task forces of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine as elected co-Chair of the Aging Research & Geriatric Networking, and as an active participant in the Integrating Sensory Health & Rehabilitation in Aging Research Task Force, Data Analytic Tools for Health Equity Research in Aging Task Force, Cognition in Aging Task Force and the COVID-19 & Frailty Rehabilitation Task Force. She is the COVID-19 Prevention Subgroup Lead of the Network on Minority Research Investigators (NMRI) at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Dr. Zanwar has played a key role in various capacities on grants that have been intramurally or extramurally funded (Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Data Resource Development Program, Texas A&M University Interdisciplinary X-Grant Program, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, National Cancer Institute, and NIA). Of the total $9 million in extramural/intramural grant support, $442,433 is attributable to her.

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