Lila K. Chamlagai MPH, is currently a third-year doctoral student at Brown University School of Public Health. Born and raised in a Bhutanese refugee camp in eastern Nepal, Lila lived in the camp for nearly 17 years before resettling with his family in Springfield, MA, in 2011. He earned his MPH degree from the Brown University School of Public Health. Before attending Brown, Lila served as a Community Advisory Board (CAB) member in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) with Dr. Theresa Betancourt’s Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) at the Boston College School of Social Work, where he assisted to investigate cultural norms and traditions related to family-strengthening interventions.

Lila's research interests focus on addressing the challenges faced by refugee communities and other marginalized populations. Lila aims to design and implement culturally congruent Mental Health Intervention for refugee and immigrant populations in the U.S. and low- to middle-income nations.