Dr. Mahalingaiah holds a BA from Middlebury College, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MS in epidemiology from Boston University’s School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Mahalingaiah completed an OB/GYN residency in the Massachusetts General/Brigham and Women’s Hospital combined program. She was a fellow in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

She spent 8 years in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine to serve the fertility aspirations of under resourced populations and was supported on two K-level training grants including the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health K12 and the Reproductive Scientist Development Program to study environmental exposures and gynecologic conditions in existing large cohorts. She received the Endocrine Society Early Investigator Award in 2016, the Ellison Family Foundation Grant 2016 and an RSDP seed grant in 2017 to pilot a new cohort platform for the study of menstrual cycles and ovulation disorders.

She has a joint appointment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health and in the OB/GYN Department at the Mass General in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

Her clinical practices focuses on ovulation disorders, PCOS and infertility.