Biography
Gulnoza joined the Post-Graduate Fellowship program in 2011 and worked on the Integrated Surveillance Systems research team while at IHME. During her fellowship, she designed a component of the health facility surveys used for the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative and worked on involving some of the former Soviet Union countries in IHME’s Access, Bottlenecks, Costs, and Equity project.
After IHME, Gulnoza went on to work as a senior research scientist at the Public Health Foundation of India.
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