Rohina Joshi

Associate Professor Rohina Joshi is a Scientia Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health. She was awarded a Future Leader Fellowship from the Australian National Heart Foundation. Associate Professor Joshi is a public health physician who works on developing low-cost healthcare models for chronic disease management in resource-limited settings. Her research interests include strengthening health systems using task-sharing between physician and non-physician health workers to deliver quality health care in resource poor settings; and improving health information systems in low and middle income countries using verbal autopsy.

Children play in water pipes at a construction site on the banks of the Yamuna River on July 26, 2010in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Picture shows several rows of large, concrete sewer pipes stacked on top of each other with their fat openings facing the camera. Each is large enough to fit one child huddled at the opening. About ten children can be seen climbing about on the feature. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
Poverty

How to Prevent a Million Children’s Deaths

by Abraham D. Flaxman, Rohina Joshi

Closing gap on child mortality for UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 in ten years may take baby steps, not giant leaps