Gayatri Malhotra, MPH, is a public health researcher and gender specialist whose work focuses on gender norms, women’s health, and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention in global contexts. She has over eight years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL), with expertise spanning gender equality, mental health, refugee health, and sexual and reproductive health. Gayatri has worked across Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean with organizations including USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GenDev) Hub, EnCompass LLC, EngenderHealth, and the International Rescue Committee. Her research and practice are grounded in mixed-methods, participatory, and trauma-informed approaches, with a commitment to ethical, inclusive, and evidence-based policy and program design.
Currently, a PhD student in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Gayatri’s research focuses on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), patterns of online and social media use, and their impacts on adolescent and young adult mental health, with a parallel interest in tech policy and creating safer digital spaces.
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