Tushar Varma

About Tushar Varma

I\'m a graphic designer with a background in brand design and health communication…

Experience

1. Graphic Designer

   Unc School Of Medicine

   Nov 2023 — Present · Chapel Hill, NC, US

   Designed 300+ stimuli for research studies awarded over $15 million of federal andprivate grant funding• Created ~200 social media posts and captions with models recruited nationwide totest impact of messaging regarding loneliness among young adults for research fundedby the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and private foundations• Designed optimized alert infographics to reduce deaths caused by drug overdoses for astudy funded by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts with MacArthur FellowNabarun Dasgupta• Developed branding and packaging for 40+ novel products and 20 print ads placedin a controlled, convenience store setting for study testing impact of messaging onconsumer habits conducted by Wake Forest University and the UNC-Chapel Hill• Led an iterative, collaborative design process with over 10 faculty members andvarious teams’ project coordinators, principle investigators, and research assistants atthe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University, etc.• Led front-end design for a full-stack developer to create UI/UX for a mobile socialmedia platform simulation used to test messages in several research studies• Developed branding for novel alcohol products and warning labels/icons to observereactions to messaging meant to lessen consumers’ alcohol consumption for an NIH-funded study

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Media and Journalism - Advertising and Public Relations

  2018 — 2023

• UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

  Bachelor's degree, Advertising/Public Relation

  2020 — 2023