Vasundhara Rangaswamy
Vasundhara Rangaswamy is a family medicine physician in training and a rural health fellow in India. She has a background as a clinical laboratory scientist, in medical microbiology, infectious diseases, and global health. She has received medical and lab education from Gujarat, India, Stanford Hosp. and clinics, California and Univ. of Alabama USA, and parts of S. America, Africa, and SE Asia. Throughout her career, Vasundhara has also been deeply involved with AID. She is connected in different capacities, with multiple rural health care organizations in different states of India like Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, etc. She has supported global projects on lab capacity building, clinical and laboratory protocol development, low-cost technology design, and community awareness. Concurrent with her rural health fellowship and fam med training program, she has been working with various NGOs on the preparation of COVID-19 for low-resource settings, improving COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake (see BBC article), provision of healthcare provider and community health worker training, procurement of PPE for Indian health workers and facilitated transport operations during the migrant laborer crisis as well. Dr. Vasu is a former AID bay area volunteer and is currently in India. She was deeply involved in training community health workers during the second and third waves and has worked with other AID volunteers and partners in the process. During 2020-2021, she was also a rural health Travel Fellow through Tribal Health Initiative, Sittlingi.
