Rajesh Vedanthan

Rajesh Vedanthan, MD, MPH is the Director of the Section for Global Health in the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine. His area of interest is implementation research, global health delivery, global cardiology, capacity-building, and the intersection of health and development. He is the Principal Investigator or co-investigator of multiple NIH grants, focusing on implementation research to develop and evaluate innovative solutions to optimize cardiovascular and risk factor care delivery in low-resource settings.

Poverty

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

When collecting COVID-19 data and modeling epidemic curves, we need to take more into account—in Africa and elsewhere