Sara Rotenberg is a DPhil Student in the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care studying how to improve healthcare for people with disabilities through better health worker training. Before coming to Oxford, Sara’s research was based in India focusing on improving the accessibility of the Mumbai Metro for people with disabilities, irrigation governance reform, and developing a collapsible, transportable stool for people with disabilities.

A passionate advocate for disability inclusion in development and health equity, she has worked on health and development policy with the World Health Organization, World Bank, the Missing Billion Initiative and Clinton Health Access Initiative. During the pandemic, she has worked on improving access to vaccinations for people with disabilities and served as a Senior Policy Advisor to Health Canada’s COVID-19 Testing and Screening Advisory Panel.

After starting her undergraduate studies in Singapore, Sara graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University with a BS in Global Health. While at Georgetown, she was awarded the Outstanding Student Award for the School of Nursing and Health Studies and named the school’s first Rhodes Scholar.