Rakhi Dandona

Dr Rakhi Dandona is Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India and at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. 

She has extensive experience in population epidemiology, monitoring and evaluation, and measurement of a variety of communicable diseases and injuries. She has keen interest in mortality estimation and improvements in cause of death, and in injury epidemiology in developing settings. Her research over the last 15 years has focused on large-scale population studies on maternal and newborn health, all-ages all-cause mortality, and on injuries including suicide, road traffic injuries, drowning and animal bite. 

She has published extensively with over 300 peer-reviewed publications, and serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Injury Prevention, and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of The Lancet Psychiatry and the Lancet Public Health.  She received her PhD from the University of Melbourne.