Project Assistant
212-992-6083
sara.amiraly@nyu.edu
Sara Amiraly is the Project Assistant for the New York City Treats Tobacco. As the Project Assistant, Sara supports NYC Treats Tobacco in mobilizing community partners by engaging various stakeholders to further tobacco control efforts in the Metro A and Metro B regions. She also manages the NYCTT website/social media and is passionate about collaborating with marginalized populations and receiving their input on how to best enhance health outcomes.
Previously, Sara has interned at Quality Undergraduate Education and Scholarly Training (QUEST), a NYU Steinhardt Applied Psychology program that seeks to increase research opportunities for historically under-resourced students. She created a critical theories database for the use of future students in their research projects. She also built and designed QUEST's 2022 Research Conference website, as well as designed social media content for QUEST's Instagram. Sara has also interned at the American Red Cross National Headquarters, where she conducted surveys of disaster response workforces and oversaw assignment of volunteers to disaster sites in the Southeast and Midwestern United States. Sara has also interned at Aga Khan University Hospital's Family Medicine Centre (FMC) in Nairobi, Kenya. She assisted PhD students in conducting quality improvement studies regarding patient satisfaction within FMC by surveying patients post-appointment.
Sara holds a BS in Global Public Health and Applied Psychology from New York University, and plans on getting her Masters of Public Health.