Shela Sridhar, MD, MPH, serves as the NCDI Poverty Network South Asia Regional Advisor. She is a dual-trained physician in internal medicine and pediatrics and a global health systems researcher. She completed a Global Health Service Delivery Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, during which time she worked as a Pediatric Clinical Advisor at Partners In Health, Rwanda, focused on quality improvement and health systems strengthening at the hospital level.

Dr. Sridhar has also served as an NIH Fogarty Fellow and spearheaded studies evaluating adolescent malnutrition at a community level and referral systems to tertiary hospitals for children with malnutrition in Zambia. She continues to work closely with colleagues in Zambia to improve community-based nutrition, optimize data systems, and measure clinic outcomes to address gaps in care delivery.

She is committed to improving access to and the quality of healthcare globally with a focus on translating research into actionable, scalable protocols. After completing a residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, she received a Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.