Baldeep Dhaliwal, PhD

Baldeep Dhaliwal, PhD, is a global health researcher and qualitative methodologist whose work examines how power, labor, and ethics intersect in health systems. She recently completed her PhD in International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a Fulbright and Maternal and Child Health India Scholar.

Her dissertation, “Community Health Workers in Urban India: Examining Their Contributions, Challenges, and Power Dynamics in Health Systems,” used ethnographic and qualitative methods to understand how CHWs are asked to shoulder immense public health responsibilities, often without decision-making power, financial security, or institutional support.

Baldeep is also a committed educator and was awarded a Gordis Teaching Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, where she designed and taught an undergraduate course titled Power and Politics in Global Health. The course challenged students to interrogate global health systems through the lens of equity, governance, and structural power. She received the student-selected Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching in the Department of Public Health Studies.

Prior to completing her PhD, Baldeep led community-based and qualitative research largely focused on vaccine acceptance and advocacy. She has co-authored 18 peer-reviewed publications, and first-authored 11 of these.

Her postdoctoral work will focus on the ethics of pandemic preparedness and response, specifically, how global health systems rely on gendered and unpaid labor to absorb risk in the name of national and global health security.