Degrees

• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2022
• M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2022
• B.S., Sociology, summa cum laude, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018

Fields of Study

Race, Ethnicity, and Empire; Health Justice; Immigrant Justice; Law; Abolition; Movement Lawyering

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles:

• Bhatnagar, Prashasti. 2024. “Medical-Legal Partnerships and Legal Regimes: A Health Justice Perspective.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 52(2):512-522. doi: 10.1017/jme.2024.121
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti, Deborah F. Perry, and Margaret E. Greer. 2024. “How Should We Measure Effectiveness of Medical-Legal Partnerships?” American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 26(8): E626–633. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.626.
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti. 2024. “The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Leaves Agricultural Workers Behind.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 52(S1): 13–16. doi: 10.1017/jme.2024.34.
• Sonnenberg, Jake, Ariana Metchik, Caitlin Schille, Prashasti Bhatnagar, Lisa Kessler, Deborah Perry, Vicki Girard, Belinda Taylor, and Erin Hall. 2024. “Integration of Medical Legal Services into a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program: A Provider Needs Assessment.” Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 97(2): 286–293. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004302.
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti, and Sonia Canzater. 2022. “Investing in Community Care Is an Important Goal and Need for Eliminating Hepatitis C In the United States: An Abolitionist Perspective.” Health Promotion Practices 24(3):411–14. doi: 10.1177/15248399221129536.
• Girard, Vicki, Yael Cannon, Prashasti Bhatnagar, and Susan Coleman. 2020. “How Medical-Legal Partnerships Help Address the Social Determinants of Mental Health.” Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 35(1):123–25. doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2020.10.014.

Law Review Articles:

• Bhatnagar, Prashasti. 2022. “Deportable until Essential: How the Neoliberal U.S. Immigration System Furthers Racial Capitalism and Operates as a Negative Social Determinant of Health.” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 36(3):1017–40.
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti. 2022. “Borders Are the Real Crisis: A Public Health Perspective on the Need for Dismantling Imagined Borders.” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 36(2):847–58.
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti. 2021. “Public Health As Pretext: The Evisceration of Asylum Law and Protections During A Pandemic.” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 35(1):317–23.
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti. 2019. “Children in Cages: A Legal and Public Health Crisis.” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 34(1):181–85.

Research Reports:

• Bhatnagar, Prashasti, Rabiyah Abdus-Salaam, Sonia Canzater, Victoria Efetevbia, Raven Freeborn, Vicki Girard, Aza Nedhari, Deborah Perry, Erin Snowden, and Keisha Watson. 2024. “Housing Justice Is Reproductive Justice: A Review of Housing Justice as a Structural Determinant of Black Women and Birthing People’s Reproductive Health in Washington, DC.” Mamatoto Village.
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti, Mary Mbaba, Whitney Hewlett Noël, Opiaah Jeffers, and Deborah F. Perry. 2022. “‘Racism Bleeds Throughout this Entire Healthcare System’: Elevating Black Women’s Birth Stories in Washington, DC through a Racial Equity Lens.” Georgetown University Center for Child & Human Development.
• Bhatnagar, Prashasti. 2022. “Racism Drives the Maternal Health Crisis in Washington, DC: Elevating Systems and Policy Level Root Causes.” Georgetown University Center for Child & Human Development.
• Girard, Vicki, Deborah Perry, Yael Cannon, Lisa Kessler, Prashasti Bhatnagar, and Jessica Roth. 2022. “The Academic Medical-Legal Partnership: Training the Next Generation of Health & Legal Professionals to Work Together to Advance Health Justice.” National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.
• Canzater, Sonia, and Prashasti Bhatnagar. 2021. “Innovative Payment Models: An Analysis of the Promise and Practice of Novel Hepatitis C Medication Procurement Strategies in the U.S.” O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law.
• Goldman, Sarah, Anna Aspenson, Prashasti Bhatnagar, and Robert Martin. 2021. “Essential, and in Crisis: A Comprehensive Review of the Public Health Threats Facing Farmworkers in the US.” Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.

Awards & Grants

• Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA, 2024-2025
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA, 2024
• Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCLA, 2023-2026
• Bettina E. Pruckmayr Memorial Award for Human Rights, Georgetown University Law Center, 2022
• Dean’s Certificate, Georgetown University Law Center, 2022
• Exceptional Pro Bono Pledge Recognition, Georgetown University Law Center (highest honor), 2022
• Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2022
• Sommer Scholarship, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (full ride and living stipend), 2020-2021
• John E. Tomas Endowed Scholarship, Georgetown University Law Center, 2019-2020, 2021-2022
• James E. Blower Memorial Scholarship, Georgetown University Law Center, 2019-2020, 2021-2022
• Merit Scholarship, Georgetown University Law Center, 2018-2019
• Mestenhauser Student Award for Excellence in Campus Internationalization, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018
• Talle Family Scholarship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (full ride), 2017-2018
• Scholarly Excellence in Equity & Diversity (SEED) Award, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018
• President’s SEED Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018
• President’s Student Leadership & Service Award, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2017 and 2018
• Sociology Outstanding Honors Thesis Award, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018
• Sociology Undergraduate Capstone Research Award, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018
• Barbara Newsome Award and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2017
• Academic All-Star Award, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2014-2018
• Global Excellence Scholarship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2014-2018