Yelena Bagdasaryan serves as a Policy and Advocacy Fellow at the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), the leading healthcare industry association representing all segments of American healthcare. In this role, Ms. Bagdasaryan supports HLC’s policy research and advocacy efforts, drawing on her background in health policy, legislative analysis, and public health preparedness.
Ms. Bagdasaryan is a David L. Boren Scholar through the U.S. Department of War’s National Security Education Program, where she studied Czech, a U.S. critical language, at Charles University in Prague. While abroad, she interned with Caritas Czech Republic, where she wrote about international development projects and supported donor outreach. She was also a Fulbright ETA Finalist to Armenia and is a Susan L. Winston Health Policy Scholar through the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship, one of twenty recipients nationwide recognized for their commitment to a career in health policy and health administration.
At the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ms. Bagdasaryan is a research assistant at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions, where she supports grant writing, systematic reviews, data analysis in STATA, and conference presentations. She also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Humanitarian Health, where she co-wrote a systematic review on health system preparedness in Iraq, and in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, supporting Dr. Daniel Barnett in developing an AI-informed framework for public health preparedness and co-authoring a manuscript for Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Bagdasaryan was a Health Policy Intern at Kentucky Youth Advocates, where she tracked legislation in the Kentucky General Assembly and met with legislators and coalition partners to advocate for policies affecting children and mothers. She was also a McConnell Scholar at the University of Louisville and represented the university at the West Point Student Conference on U.S. Affairs.
Ms. Bagdasaryan is pursuing a Master of Science in Public Health in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with certificates in Preparedness and Health Finance and Management. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Louisville Honors College with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health and Political Science.
