emerging leader finalist:
Lavanya Vasudevan
Each year the Triangle Global Health Consortium recognizes emerging leaders in North Carolina who have demonstrated significant promise and a commitment to improving the health of the world's communities.
We are excited to announce our 3 finalists and celebrate their leadership, innovation and spirit of collaboration! Learn more about Lavanya Vasudevan below, view our other Ward Cates Emerging Leader finalists, and cast your vote to help choose our 2017 Ward Cates Emerging Leader Award winner. The winning individual will be profiled on the TGHC website and in communications materials and will be presented with the award at the Triangle Global Health Consortium's Annual Award Celebration on May 2 at Top of the Hill Restaurant in front of many of the top regional leaders in global health.
Voting is now closed as of Friday, April 14 at 5:00 pm (ET).
To learn more about about the Ward Cates Emerging Leader award, click here.
Dr. Ward Cates
Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH, CPH
Lavanya Vasudevan is a research scholar in the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at the Duke Global Health Institute. Dr. Vasudevan is a global leader and expert in digital health. She currently serves as an expert on digital health taxonomy and evidence for the World Health Organization (WHO), specifically advancing integration of digital health interventions with national health systems globally. She has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters on digital health. She helped develop a WHO-UNICEF framework on digital health for maternal and child health that remains one of the most widely used digital health classification schemes in the field to-date. At Duke, Dr. Vasudevan serves as an advisory board member of the mHealth@Duke initiative.
Dr. Vasudevan’s research integrates innovative digital health interventions and multidisciplinary collaborations to promote childhood vaccination uptake. Her projects span Tanzania, Bangladesh, Ghana, and Honduras, with a particular focus on regions where children are most likely to receive delayed or no vaccinations. She is the recipient of several grants utilizing digital health interventions to promote childhood vaccinations, including recent funding from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Vasudevan is dedicated to using her expertise in digital health to reducing preventable childhood mortality globally.