PROJECT: Mental health support program tailored specifically for Filipinos, which would offer peer support circles, cultural mentorship and guidance, mental health resources and counseling.

Angela Rose David is a first-generation Filipino American, born and raised in Los Angeles, California, with familial ties to the Philippines (Oriental Mindoro and Bulacan). She graduated from UCLA in 2018 with a BS in Biology and a double minor in Spanish and public health.

After spending two years interning with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on projects related to public health education and COVID-19 preparedness, David went on to complete a premedical postbaccalaureate program at UCLA, followed by a yearlong National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities’ Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training (MHRT) T37 fellowship at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

Utilizing these experiences, David now works at UCLA full-time as the project manager for a lab that explores health disparities affecting the Filipino immigrant population. She is also a full-time student in the Master of Public Health for Health Professionals program at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and will graduate this June 2025.