Aanchal Narang is the Clinical Research Coordinator for the YETI Partner Study. She is also the Data Analyst and Clinical Research Coordinator for a number of studies with the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences.

Aanchal received her Bachelor’s in Arts in English and International Studies from Northwestern University in 2014. She then began teaching and staffing at an orphanage in India. She continued her work in the education field as a curriculum advisor at Bridge International Academies, Boston University Teaching Fellow, and Boston Arts Academy teacher. During this time she also received her MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. At Boston University, she received the Leslie Epstein Global Writing Fellowship. Aanchal then pivoted her career towards the field of mental health and psychiatry – she served as a mental health specialist at Mclean Hospital, working with individuals with BPD, DID, and schizophrenia; she was also an EMT for a 911 Boston EMS truck.

Aanchal completed a pre-medical post-baccalaureate certificate at Mills College in 2022. Through Brigham & Womens Hospital and Vital CxNs, she also began researching Boston’s food ecosystem and the impact of COVID on food access for Boston families. Since then she has been at UCSF – first as a volunteer researcher conducting research on noncommunicable diseases in immigrant populations, and now as a CRC and Data Analyst conducting research on HCV public health practices, healthcare around breastfeeding and allergies, and the impact of temporary childbirth migration on healthcare continuity for Indian women.