Roopa Dhatt

Roopa Dhatt
Roopa Dhatt
Born	India
Education	University of California; Paris Institute of Political Studies; Temple University School of Medicine;
Known for	President International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (2012-2013); Co-founder Women in Global Health (2015); Women Leaders in Global Health Conference;
	Medical career
Profession	Physician
Institutions	Georgetown University Medical Center
Sub-specialties	Internal medicine

Roopa Dhatt is an Indian American physician, an Assistant Professor and Internal Medicine Hospitalist at Georgetown University Medical Center, and at a community hospital, Washington, DC. In 2015 she co-founded Women in Global Health, which aims to reduce gender disparity among global health leaders, and subsequently became the organisation's Executive Director.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she highlighted the gender aspects of COVID-19, including that a disproportionate number of frontline workers are women, yet not part of leadership roles. She was part of a team that evaluated the language used by men and women leaders during the pandemic. On International Women's Day 2021, along with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom, she signed a memorandum of understanding on the position of women in global health.