She also serves as a technical adviser to Health Alliance International, a UW center that works with ministries of health around the world to improve population health. Hagopian seeks to elevate the visibility of war as a public health problem. In 2005, she led a sister university collaboration with the University of Basrah in Iraq to bring academic public health professionals together despite war. Her main area of research involves health worker migration from low-income countries to wealthy countries. Hagopian is active in the American Public Health Association and serves on the board of College Access Now, an organization that works to assist low-income Seattle public high school students in attending college. She has an MHA and a Ph.D. in health services from the University of Washington.