Dr Bhargavi Rao

Bhargavi is a Clinical Associate Professor in Humanitarian Health at LSHTM,  and also works part time as a Malaria and Infectious diseases advisor at MSF (Operational Centre Amsterdam).  She has worked in humanitarian infectious diseases programming across varied contexts from South Sudan to Venezuela, and is a clinician with a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology. Although her first research love is malaria, she also has ongoing projects on climate and early warning systems in humanitarian contexts, antibiotic mass drug administration and vaccination in acute humanitarian crises and strategies to reach zero-dose communities.  Bhargavi led the development and is Programme Director for the new Health in Humanitarian Crises masters programme at LSHTM.