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Sarah Battistich

Radhika Sundararajan, MD, PhD

Weill Cornell Medicine

Radhika Sundararajan is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is an Emergency Physician, Anthropologist, and Implementation Scientist who has been conducting qualitative and mixed-methods research in international settings for over two decades. Her current research focuses on using Implementation Science approaches to design and evaluate healthcare interventions in low resource settings to improve public health outcomes. From 2017-2022, she was recipient of a K23 Career Development award from the National Institute of Mental Health to improve HIV testing uptake among communities who use informal healthcare resources in southwestern Uganda. Their work has shown that informal providers, such as traditional healers, have strong influence over the health behaviors of their patients. They designed a novel point-of-care HIV testing program which was delivered by traditional healers directly to clients of unknown HIV serostatus. They conducted two cluster randomized trials, which have shown that this program significantly improves uptake of HIV testing among adults of unknown HIV serostatus in eastern Africa. She is currently Principal Investigator for an R01 award to conduct an effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial to evaluate if traditional healers can provide HIV self-testing and psychosocial support to improve the entire HIV continuum of care. In addition, Dr. Sundararajan is a co-PI on an R01 to evaluate the effectiveness of community health workers to improve screening for gestational and post-partum diabetes among pregnant people in Indian slum communities. She serves as an Associate Editor for Implementation Science Communications and PLOS Global Public Health.

Sean Boaglio

Angela Schafer Schafer

Joseph Reardon

Jamie Cirbus

Kristen Dettorre

Tiffany Alexander

Jordan Rupp

Shannon Langston

Brian Bales

Jessica Schmidt

Travis Wieland

Ashwath Gunesekar

Ilan Kolkowitz

Daniel Summers

Arthur Chiu

Sachita Shah, MD, DTM&H

Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington

Dr. Sachita Shah is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in 2008 at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Emergency Ultrasound fellowship training at Alameda County (Highland Hospital) Medical Center, and received her Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Lima, Peru in 2018.

Dr. Shah serves as Fellowship Director of the UW Global Emergency Medicine and Rural Health Fellowship Program, in collaboration with the Alaska Native Medical Center and Great Plains IHS. She works clinically at Harborview Medical Center, an academic trauma center and county referral hospital in Seattle, and at Alaska Native Medical Center, a hub for the tribal health consortium in Alaska. Dr. Shah is an internationally known expert in the field of point-of-care ultrasound in limited resource settings and leads the educational initiatives in the UW Department of Emergency Medicine, Section of Population Health. Her main academic focus is the development of educational community and techniques in population health, specifically global & rural health and social emergency medicine topics. Her main research focus is impact of point-of-care ultrasound in limited resource settings to promote health equity in emergency care and maternal health.

Scott Owens