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Bhavna Lall, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A.

Bhavna Lall M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A.

Bhavna Lall, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A. is a clinical assistant professor of adult medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. She contributes to the following pre-clerkship curriculum courses at the college: Clinical Focus Session 4: Transcending Borders; Integrated Clinical Cases; and Patient, Physicians and Population. Lall also provides integrated primary care at the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD.

Lall is an internal medicine physician with a diverse background in global public health, medicine, and public administration. Previously, she has worked as primary care physician at Brigham and Women's and Faulkner Hospital and as an internal medicine hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. During this time, she was also faculty at Harvard Medical School as an Instructor of Medicine.

She completed her bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, her Master of Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Lall completed her internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and earned a Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

In the past, Lall served as a medical officer with the Peace Corps at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. She has also provided clinical service in Thailand, Uganda, Austria, and the U.K. and worked on public health projects and initiatives in India, the Caribbean region, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Prior positions also include management work in non-profits, health care consulting, and industry.

Lall has a strong interest in bridging gaps between public health and medicine, access to care issues, low-cost diagnostics and addressing global public health challenges and health care disparities.