Bhakti

Hansoti

, MBCHB, MPH

Dr. Hansoti is an associate professor in emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and international health at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She is a clinician scientist focused on the implementation of evidence-based interventions in the fields of HIV, COVID, Mpox, and Opiate Use Disorder to support vulnerable patients in the Emergency Department. She is the Associate Director for Academic Programs at the JHU Center for Global Health and Director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Emergency Care. Since March 2020 she has served as the Global Health Security technical director for the Reaching Impact, Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) project at Jhpiego, funded by USAID (RISE COAG # 7200AA19CA00003). She oversees health systems strengthening interventions across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. Her overarching goal is to increase the capacity of the global public health workforce to mitigate avoidable illness/injury from emerging threats. She is Co-PI of a CDC-funded grant that applies organizational management principles to National Public Health Institutes (NPHI) in Global Health Security (GHS) priority countries, to strengthen public health capacity for pandemic response.  Recently, she was named the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Emergency, Critical and Operative Care director, focused on strengthening the workforce capacity to mitigate avoidable injury and death. 

Domestically, she serves as the PI for multiple ED-based, institutionally funded surveillance studies on COVID-19 and Mpox, with a particular focus on their impact on the HIV care continuum. Additionally, I am a Co-I on a Baltimore City Health Department-funded HIV services program aimed at expanding same-day PrEP and rapid ART initiation. This application presents a unique opportunity to apply my extensive methodological expertise to develop a novel PrEP intervention for vulnerable patients with substance use disorder. Recently, I became the JHU site PI for the Baltimore Comprehensive Overdose Response to End the Epidemic (BCORE), funded by the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office, which seeks to strengthen ED-based peer support across the city. 

Dr. Hansoti received both her undergraduate and medical degrees from Edinburgh University, Scotland. She completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago and joined the department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins as an International Emergency Medicine fellow in 2012. In her short tenure at Hopkins Dr. Hansoti completed both a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Cape Town; has published over 100 manuscripts; given numerous invited talks nationally and internationally; held varied national and international leadership roles; is an active member of the JHU SOM IRB.