Dr. Poonam Dhavan

Dr. Poonam Dhavan serves as the global senior migration health policy advisor for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and is based in IOM Washington DC. In this role, she is responsible for advice and guidance on migration health policies development and implementation, both internally across the various thematic areas of migration management in humanitarian and development contexts, as well as externally working with the UN system, Member States and other stakeholders. She was previously posted with IOM in Geneva, Switzerland and Manila Philippines. Before IOM, she worked at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, the Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi and with the World Health Organization in Geneva. With over two decades of international health experience, she is trained as a medical doctor from India with specialization in health administration and public health.