Aditi Rao is a Research Associate in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to serving as the Secretariat to the project’s Technical Advisory Committee, Aditi is engaged in all elements of research design, data collection, analysis and synthesis for STRIPE. She supports the quantitative and qualitative streams for the knowledge mapping and synthesis phases, and coordinates the development of materials for the Global Health Course with all consortium partners as part of the knowledge packaging phase. 

As a faculty member as Johns Hopkins University, Aditi’s research focuses on equitable implementation and evaluation of health interventions, and understanding socio-cultural dimensions of program adoption, across contexts in Asia and Africa. She is particularly interested in better understanding decision-making processes around the implementation of global health policies in local health systems.