Shubham Bansal

Biography

Shubham Bansal, of Mukilteo, Washington, is a senior at the University of Washington, where he is studying Neuroscience and Anthropology. He is the founder and Director of Narcare, a national community-based nonprofit that distributes life-saving medicine, trains community responders, and advocates for policies expanding overdose prevention across the US. As a researcher in the Linsley Lab, Shubham has published work on T-cell receptor repertoires in SARS-CoV-2 and autoimmunity, and at the Webb lab he analyzes behavioral data to better understand emotional regulation in youth with neurodevelopmental disorders. In King County, he works in the drug surveillance team to track substance use and overdoses. Outside of his professional and academic world, he enjoys bouldering and going for runs. In the future, he aims to connect scientific evidence and community voices to build comprehensive health policies and programs surrounding substance use disorder. To that end, he hopes to pursue degrees at the University of Oxford that allow him to make system-level changes.