Malvika’s research is rooted in dialogue—between clinicians and researchers, between institutions and public health systems, and between nations. A PhD candidate at Texas Tech University, Malvika is the 2025 Project Support Australia winner and Fulbright researcher collaborating with the University of the Sunshine Coast to evaluate her Be Well Plan, an anti-burnout intervention for mental health clinicians. Through running synchronized control trials in the US and Australia, Malvika is able to investigate how the same intervention can be useful in starkly different healthcare systems. Funds from the Roth Foundation will allow her to host a virtual symposium convening Australian and American stakeholders to share findings from parallel studies, reflect on cross-cultural insights, and strengthen binational strategies for improving mental health clinician wellbeing.

Upon returning to the US, Malvika intends to pilot the Be Well Plan program at Texas Tech University and advocate to  local governmental representatives for policies mitigating burnout.