Bina Valsangkar, Md, Mph Email & Phone Number

I am a pediatrician and global public health professional. Here are some things about me and my work:1. Medicine and public health are my passions. As a little girl, I went to India to visit my grandparents and watched my physician grandfather get up from dinner one day and run to his hospital to help a patient. I wanted to be a doctor ever since. 2. I have worked on newborn and child health in over 20 countries, spanning Africa, Asia, and Latin America. I am equally committed to caring for children of all ages in my local community as a general pediatrician. 3. I am board-certified in pediatrics and obesity medicine. I chose to pursue further training in obesity so I could better care for the growing pediatric population facing obesity and non-communicable diseases. I also believe obesity is one of the greatest public health challenges we will face domestically and internationally in the coming years.4. I am creative and entrepreneurial. I won an innovation competition for my idea to redesign neonatal intensive care units in Malawi to better deliver family-centered care. I had the privilege of working with a team of talented engineers and health workers to make it a reality. As a first-year medical student I founded an organization that worked with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health and civil society organizations to deliver social programs and do health research. The organization lives on today. I have always loved working in interdisciplinary teams.5. I am not afraid to take risks. After I finished my training in pediatrics, I made an unconventional choice to move to India to work on rural newborn health programs. I gained intensive field experience, and came back with an appreciation of the complexity of global public health field operations.6. I believe in the power of advocacy. As a pediatrician, I have helped patients get speech services in school, disability accommodations for housing, and insurance coverage for medications. As a public health professional, I am media-trained and have written editorials, given speeches, and have been a guest expert on TV, radio, and print.7. I am an avid reader and enjoy setting outlandish yearly reading goals. I stay on top of the latest in my field, but also love reading non-fiction and learning about topics completely outside of my profession. Some of my recent favorites are On Grand Strategy and Exercised.

Listed skills include Global Health, Public Health, Program Development, Research, and 9 others.