Roopa Dhatt
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- President International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (2012-2013)
- Co-founder Women in Global Health (2015)
- Women Leaders in Global Health Conference
Roopa Dhatt | |
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| Born | India |
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| Medical career | |
| Profession | Physician |
| Institutions | Georgetown University Medical Center |
| Sub-specialties | Internal medicine |
Roopa Dhatt is an Indian American physician, an Assistant Professor and Internal Medicine Hospitalist at Georgetown University Medical Center, and at a community hospital, Washington, DC. In 2015 she co-founded Women in Global Health, which aims to reduce gender disparity among global health leaders, and subsequently became the organisation's Executive Director.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she highlighted the gender aspects of COVID-19, including that a disproportionate number of frontline workers are women, yet not part of leadership roles. She was part of a team that evaluated the language used by men and women leaders during the pandemic.
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Roopa Dhatt was born in the 1980s in India, and emigrated to the United States at the age of five.[1][2] She later recalled her exposure to health inequities during a visit to India in the early 1990s when she was nine years old, leading her to pursue a career in medicine.[2]
She earned a bachelor's degree in cell biology and African-American and African studies from the University of California, Davis, and a master's degree in public affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies.[3] She received her M.D. from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.[2][3] In 2012, as a medical student, she became president of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations.[1]