Lavanya Vijayasingham

Dr. Lavanya Vijayasingham is an interdisciplinary global health research professional from Malaysia. She’s just completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, where she worked on gender and health policy, programming, and research- including on the integration of sex and gender factors in COVID-19 R&D, regulation and monitoring, and in national vaccine deployment programs. Dr.Lavanya has prior experience in academia, government, the pharmaceutical industry, consulting, and NGO settings in Australia and Malaysia, and is a self-proclaimed 'health for all' idealist who is keen to continue this advocacy, and research in her future global health work.