Anil Thota is a DrPH student at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His dissertation work focuses on primary care interventions and how they serve racial and ethnic minorities living in high-income countries. He aims to create a large evidence and gap map of primary care interventions relevant to these populations as a tool for evidence-informed decision making.
He is currently Deputy Director of the Synthesis and Reviews Office at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), a research non-profit committed to promoting the use of evidence in decision-making to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries. He has worked in various evidence synthesis roles at organizations such as UNICEF, CDC, the Campbell Collaboration, and Health Quality Ontario on various topics in population health and international development. Anil has a Medical degree (MBBS) from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (India), a Master of Public Health degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (USA) and a Master of Science in Evidence-based Health care from the University of Oxford (UK).