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Dr Shivani Bhatt is an Advanced Trainee in Infectious Diseases, working in the Western Province, Papua New Guinea as a TB Specialist in Public Health. Her role is to work collaboratively with public health units in Daru in the fight to end TB, including an emphasis on consolidating and upscaling preventive therapy and contact tracing, well as raising awareness for COVID prevention and promoting vaccination uptake.
Shivani has an interest in global health, public health and tropical medicine. She has previously worked in health policy and strategy with the World Health Organisation on the End TB Strategy and has undertaken clinical training to date in both metropolitan and rural Victoria and in the Northern Territory.
RID-TB: Reducing the Impact of Drug-Resistant TB in Western Province, PNG
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