Arpita Raja (She/Her) works as a Senior Research Assistant in Policy Core, at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI). She holds an MSc in Global Health from King’s College London and has experience working across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the UK in public health policy, maternal and neonatal health, infectious disease control, and population health. Her work focuses on health systems research and strengthening. At the Ministry of Health, Singapore, she contributed to the COVID-19 and Monkeypox outbreak response and supported national disease surveillance efforts.