Neha Sharma

Neha Sharma is a student on the UAB Honors College’s Personalized Path. She is pursuing a major in health care management from the School of Health Professions.

When offered to join the Honors College, Neha chose the Personalized Path due to its flexibility and vast selection of seminars that aligned with her interests and major. The honors seminar, Blazing Your Path to Wellness, taught her how to focus on her personal wellness and find strategies that address the city’s need to improve health outcomes. Different from many other courses taught on campus, she also enjoyed the honors seminar, Reading the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because it connected themes, such as mass media and contemporary issues, with real-life scenarios.

Neha attributes the Honors College for cultivating her networking skills through various classes, workshops, events, and even student leadership positions. The honors student leadership experiences have allowed her to grow professionally, while creating opportunities to serve and represent other students. In the Honors College, she serves as an Honors Ambassador, Personalized Path representative for the Honors College Leadership Council (HCLC), and as a Student Mentor and Retreat Team (SMART) Leader Coordinator, where she had one of her fondest memories attending silent disco during the annual New Student Retreat.

Neha’s leadership extends beyond the Honors College as an elected member of the Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA), and Leadership and Service Council. She also volunteers at My Sister’s Closet with the YWCA Central Alabama.

Through these shared experiences, Neha views her on-campus and community involvement as stepping-stones to achieve her dream goal of becoming a CEO of a hospital. To learn how to improve healthcare organizations and their commitment to serve various populations, she plans to pursue a master’s degree in health administration.

Although she has a demanding schedule, Neha finds time to create memories through dance with Birmingham’s Blazin Bhangra (BBB), and playing pickleball and volleyball.