Apoorva Handigol is a global health professional committed to using cross-cultural partnerships to support creative and equitable solutions to strengthen health systems. She is passionate about and experienced in health program management, evidence-based and anthropological research and health equity community organizing.
At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Handigol is a senior program associate on the evaluation & adaptive learning team. She executes project management and collaboration with the Tanzania Ministry of Health to test innovative solutions to improve health provider diagnosis and prescription for childhood pneumonia. She also conducts qualitative research and coordination for programs funded by USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focused on health systems strengthening, evidence uptake and resiliency-building in the face of civic space closures with partners across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Handigol served as Princeton in Asia Public Health Fellow based in Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam where she worked on HPV and cervical cancer prevention, education and access to testing. As a Fellow, Apoorva also served as a Senior Analyst with Tractus Asia, supporting global businesses on their market entry and investment strategy in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, she conducted healthcare integration project management at El Camino Hospital, working on quality metric analysis to increase Medicare reimbursement for El Camino physicians.
Ms. Handigol holds a BA in sociology & anthropology from Carleton College. She is a native English speaker and is conversational in French, Vietnamese, and Kannada.
