Meghan Meredith is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is advised by Dr. Lauren Steimle. Her research interests include addressing health and social systems challenges using optimization. She is especially interested in operations research methodologies that are fair, interpretable, and applicable in a clinical or public health setting. She is currently focused on maternal health topics including maternal morbidity/mortality risk prediction and access to care.

In 2023, Meghan was selected as a Summer Associate at RAND Corporation where she worked on quantifying the impact of forced labor laws on U.S. business. 

Meghan received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked with Dr. Laura Albert on analyzing the results of a smart policing initiative to reduce high-risk opioid use and drug-related crime. At UW-Madison, she was a member of the Quality & Safety Improvement Student Lab.