Global Health Institute

Ritwika Rituparna (G'25) is a student at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, pursuing a Master of International Development Policy. She has significant experience working in the development sector in India, and while working on COVID-19 response in India she developed a passion for addressing inequalities in health care access; she hopes to work at the intersection of gender and health care. Her most recent experiences include working with Innovations for Poverty Action in Ghana, focusing on education interventions, as well as with the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) on gender mainstreaming practices in program evaluations. She is dedicated to advancing equitable health care solutions through policy and research. As a 2024-2025 Global Health Institute Student Fellow, she will be working with Professor Eva Jarawan on a regional monitoring and evaluation framework for non-communicable diseases for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries.