Radhika Sundararajan MD, PhD

Radhika Lu Sundararajan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Weill Cornell Center for Global Health. She received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, and completed residency training at Massachusetts General/Brigham & Women's Hospitals. She previously served as Director of the UC-San Diego School of Medicine Global Health Academic Concentration.

Dr. Sundararajan's work seeks to improve engagement with healthcare services in global, low-resource settings, with a particular focus on improving HIV-related clinical outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has shown that informal healthcare providers, such as traditional healers, have a strong influence over their clients' health-seeking trajectories, and should be considered key stakeholders for HIV control programs in endemic regions. She has conducted mixed methods and implementation research on both infectious and non-communicable diseases in India, Mozambique, Uganda, and Tanzania.