Anu was born in New Zealand and earned her medical degree at the University of Auckland School of Medicine. She worked with international non-governmental organization programs for child health and disaster relief before coming to New York City in 2002, where she trained in Pediatrics, Global Health and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Anu went on to train in Tropical and Travel Medicine at Universidad Cayetano Heredia in Peru, to work with the NYC Department of Health on pediatric tuberculosis, and to become the Director of Global Health Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
In 2017, Anu created Women Together Inc. (www.womentogetherglobal.com) supporting grassroots women’s groups in eastern Africa to travel, meet, and exchange income-generating skills. In 2018, Anu became the Director of the Office of Wellbeing and Resilience at The Icahn School of Medicine at Sinai.
