ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT LOHITHASREE (SIRI) BODE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of California Berkeley | California, United States | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 10, SDG 11 & UNAI 2
" I do this work because I believe health is the foundation of hope, and hope is the foundation of change. My journey has shown me that when someone invests in a young person’s potential, entire communities can be transformed. Through the Millennium Fellowship, I am committed to championing the voices of youth, advancing health equity, and proving that with vision and courage, we can build a future where every child has the resources to thrive and the power to change the world. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: WellWorld
WellWorld: A Personalized Path to Holistic Well-Being
Growing up in a culturally diverse yet underserved community, I saw how stigma, inequities, and limited resources prevented open conversations about health. This inspired me to launch WellWorld, a website designed to make well-being more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable for people from all backgrounds. Building on ideas from my earlier work with the Credible Mind Mood Tracker, WellWorld takes a broader, user-centered approach by recognizing that health is multidimensional—shaped not only by mental and physical wellness but also by education, poverty, equity, and the environment.
The website functions as a personalized resource hub, adapting to each user’s needs, identity, and context. Through demographic and location-based filters, users receive tailored recommendations that highlight both direct self-care strategies and the often-overlooked factors that influence health, such as education, financial stability, and environmental conditions. Depending on the state or country you are in, a list of relevant mental health laws will be provided, along with nonprofit organizations that focus on mental health for marginalized communities, to help inform the user. As users interact with the platform and provide feedback, WellWorld refines its future suggestions, creating an evolving space that grows with the user. By centering individual experiences while connecting them to broader global challenges, the platform empowers people to care for their well-being in ways that are holistic, relevant, and sustainable.
About the Millennium Fellow
Lohithasree (Siri) Bode is a pre-med student at the University of California, Berkeley, dedicated to advancing health equity and global development. With research experience at Harvard Medical School and UCSF in transplantation science, and as a health advocate, Siri combines advocacy, innovation, and science to address critical health challenges. Through the Millennium Fellowship, Siri seeks to amplify youth involvement in the Immunization Agenda 2030. Following graduation, Siri aspires to pursue medical training and a career at the intersection of global health, ethics, and policy.
