Dr. Rajesh Vedanthan is the Director of the Section for Global Health in the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine. He is Associate Professor in the Departments of Population Health and Medicine/Cardiology. His area of interest is implementation research, global health delivery, global cardiology, capacity-building, and the intersection of health and development. He is the Principal Investigator or co-investigator of multiple NIH grants, and works actively with global collaborators to improve the health of populations worldwide.