Neena Joshi
Consultant, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) (USA)
Neena Joshi serves as a consultant on the Lancet COVID-19 Commission where she supports the Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation, Green Recovery and Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets Task Forces. She provides research, writing, and editorial support to the Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation and Green Recovery Task Forces and the Lancet COVID-19 Commission as a whole.
Neena has conducted field research in India on adolescent health education and their access to quality health care services. For her Masters capstone work, she implemented and evaluated a comprehensive health education program for adolescent boys in Mumbai, India. Since graduating, she has conducted research on The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria policy to help guide donors and national HIV programs as countries move away from donor aid and towards domestic financing and sustainability. Currently, along with supporting the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, she is also a research consultant at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Center for Vulnerable Populations where she supports various projects with data analysis and report writing. These projects are primarily focused on overdose prevention among individuals who use opioids and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medication for opioid use disorder clinics.
Neena holds a Masters of Science in Global Health Sciences from UCSF and a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.