Vaibhav Gupta

Vaibhav Gupta is a global health and international development expert with fifteen years of experience. He has worked with the government of India, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. Vaibhav has a master's in public policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor's in economics from the University of Cambridge. 

 

 

 

A health-care worker waits to test residents during a medical campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a slum area in Mumbai, India, June 30, 2020. The photo shows a worker wearing personal protective equipment standing awkwardly among residents, most of whom aren't even wearing a mask. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Poverty

South Asia Needs a New Playbook (Now) to Stop the Coronavirus Catastrophe

by Vaibhav Gupta

COVID-19 offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to correct years of health security neglect and chronic under-investment

A man offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2020. The photo shows a man dressed entirely in protective gear with his head bowed in font of an ambulance and before what appears to be a corpse wrapped in white sheets. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Poverty

Rethinking the Future of Global Health

by Vaibhav Gupta

There can be no better time to reimagine our health security based on global cooperation, equity, trust, and solidarity