Roopa Dhatt
About Roopa Dhatt
Dr. Roopa Dhatt is a passionate advocate for gender equality in global health and a leading voice in the movement to correct the gender imbalance in global health leadership. She is also a practicing Internal Medicine physician in Washington, D.C. Dr. Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing issues of power, privilege, and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership roles and to opening up spaces for the voices of these women to be heard. Determined to build a movement to transform women’s leadership opportunities in health, Dr. Dhatt co-founded Women in Global Health in 2015. Today, Women in Global Health has more nearly 47 chapters, 100,000 supporters in more than 100 countries and continues to grow. Dr. Dhatt was recognized in the Gender Equality Top 100, the most influential people in global policy 2019. She also joined as a public delegate the historical United States Delegation to the 65th Session of the United Nations Commission of the Status of Women in March 2021. She is a #G7 #W7 Advisor to Japan . She is on the Scientific Advisory Group for PEPAR. She co-chairs the Gender Equity Hub on Health Workforce hosted by WHO in the Global Health Workforce Network. She was also a member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation Task Force. She also has appointments as Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and University of Miami.