Bhavna Lall, MD, MPH, MPA
Dr. Bhavna Lall is an internal medicine physician with a diverse background in global public health, medicine, and public administration. Prior to medical school, her work positions included healthcare consulting in the private sector, manager and senior manager positions in non-profits working with the Global AIDS Program under Centers for Disease Control cooperative agreements/funding in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and India on lab strengthening, as well as providing technical assistance for HIV/AIDS Programs in the Caribbean region and Botswana. She also completed an internship in the Dept. of HIV/AIDS at WHO in Geneva while in medical school. Bhavna Lall completed her internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 2011. She was a Yale Global Health scholar and worked in Kampala, Uganda at Mulago Hospital on the infectious disease wards in 2011. In 2011, she began working at Brigham and Women’s and Faulkner Hospital as a primary care physician and precepted residents at the Brigham and Women’s Jen Center for Primary Care. Following this, she became an internal medicine hospitalist at the Massachusetts General Hospital during which time she also completed a Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2014. She joined the Peace Corps as a Medical Officer at their headquarters office in Washington, DC in 2015 and was also on temporary duty as a medical officer in Bangkok, Thailand during July 2015. She returned to Boston in 2016 and joined as an internal medicine hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Currently, she is an Associate Medical Director in Global Patient Safety Evaluation in gastroenterology at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. She continues to also work as a internal medicine hospitalist at BIDMC. Bhavna has a strong interest in bridging gaps between public health and medicine, low cost diagnostics in global health, access to care issues, and addressing global public health challenges.