Dr. Kyaolin Rajbhandary is an international student from Nepal who joined the DrPH program in Health Policy and Management at NYMC in Spring 2022. She received a bachelor’s degree in Medicine. She started her clinical practice in 2015 just after Nepal Earthquake occurred, working at a private hospital. She obtained an MPA degree. After her graduation from New York University Wagner, she worked as an associate analyst at Healthcare Strategy at Bullpen, which is a startup telehealth consulting firm researching and analyzing current aspects of the US digital healthcare market. She is currently an emerging healthcare management professional. She played a vital role in facilitating communication among and between hospitals, and private-sector relief funders. She helped re-allocating limited financial, logistics, and human resources to resource-strained departments. This experience drew her towards disaster preparedness and public health issues due to the lack of management and guidelines in her country. Going forward during studying her DrPH program in NYMC, she plans on gaining practical research-based experience from US-based and global health systems to be able to introduce best practices for healthcare management and public health education in Nepal.

Hometown

Nepal

Undergraduate Major

Medicine

Graduate School(s)

New York University Wagner

Focus Area/Interests

• Disaster preparedness
• Public health issues
• Digital healthcare market
• Healthcare management
• Public health education in Nepal

Current Position

• Emerging healthcare management professional

Career Experience

• Clinical practice post-Nepal Earthquake in a private hospital
• Associate analyst at Bullpen (telehealth consulting firm)