Anu Sharma, MA, MPH, MCHES, CGFM, CFE is currently a Public Health Analyst in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She works in the Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO) Office, in the Internal Controls Division, where she focuses on Program Integrity and Risk Management.
She is a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). She received her MPH in Socio-Medical Sciences, with a concentration in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and she is also a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES).
Ms. Sharma served as a Board Member of the Coalition of Battered Women’s Advocates (CBWA) and Treasurer of the South Asian Public Health Association (SAPHA). She was co-Founder of the national Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence, and was the former Executive Director of SAKHI (“friend”) and ASHA (“hope”) for South Asian women in crisis. She also worked at the National Resource Centers on Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS. Ms. Sharma received her BA in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College, a MA in Art History with a focus on South Asian Art, from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and a certificate in Fine Art Appraisal Studies from New York University. She taught homeless children at the UPenn Art and Archeology Museum and then school children in the Brooklyn Museum’s Asian and Decorative Arts Collections.
Ms. Sharma is deeply interested in how individual creative expression and social support networks, within culturally specific contexts, may help in healing from disease and illness, as well as from injury and abuse. She is married and enjoys calligraphy and watercolor painting, which she describes as the next stop in the journey of her life as an art historian, women's advocate, health educator, financial manager and fraud examiner. Her current focus is on the creative, adventurous and healing spirit. She became an APINCSN National Advisory Council member, January 2012.