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Rohini is an emergency physician with expertise in health and human rights working with us as a Research Fellow. Her work focuses on the protection of human rights in times of complex humanitarian crisis and conflict. She is particularly interested in the protection of health workers and health services. She is adjunct Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and works clinically at in Oakland, California.

Rohini’s research interests include studying the impact of human rights and humanitarian law violations, such as attacks on health, torture, violations of free speech and assembly, and war crimes, on health. She is particularly interested in developing strong research methodology in fragile contexts.

"I have been working on the problem of attacks on health since working to validate a tool to survey attacks on healthworkers in 2011. My work has been to look at the issue from different angles-- epidemiologically, statistically, comparatively, to see where we can make meaningful change."