Roona Ray is an MD student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has a background in international and domestic public health, specifically with respect to the health of poor communities. She has conducted research for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Mexican National Institute of Public Health, and Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a sex workers' union in India. Her expertise is in infectious disease: she serves as a peer reviewer for the HIV/AIDS section of the American Public Health Association, has contributed to research and writing for the HIV division of Human Rights Watch, and is a board member of Tiyatien Health, an organization delivering HIV treatment to rural communities in Liberia. Ray is a graduate of Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.