Dr. Bhakti Hansoti is an associate professor in emergency medicine, infectious diseases and international health at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), focused on using implementation science to support vulnerable patients in the ED. She is the Global Health Security technical director for the USAID RISE project overseeing health systems strengthening in across 12 countries in Africa and Asia. She is also director of the JHU WHO Collaborating Center for Emergency, Critical and Operative care.
Dr. Hansoti has authored over 100 publications, earned several research awards, and serves an active member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB). Her research focuses on the intersection of Global Health, Public Health and Implementation Science. Specifically, she seeks to evaluate the implementation of evidence-based interventions to improve the health of vulnerable patients who present to the ED. Most of her research to date has been based in South Africa, focused on HIV service delivery from the ED. Her domestic research focuses on the implementation of ED-based surveillance activities for COVID-19 and other influenza-like illnesses, and social determinants of health.
Dr. Hansoti completed her MBChB at Edinburgh University, an EM residency at the University of Chicago, an MPH from JHU, and a PhD from the University of Cape Town.
