Megha Sharma is an Affiliated Researcher at Global Health- Health Systems and Policy (HSP): Medicines, focusing on antibiotics, at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Her main area of research is improving the situation of judicious antibiotics prescribing at healthcare facilities and rationalizing the use of antibiotics at the community level. She has collected baseline data of antibiotic prescribing for over 200,000 in-patients from two tertiary care, private-sector hospitals from the private sector in Central India. She has established a strong system of manual data collection in the study hospitals, with the help of nursing staff. Improving hygiene in healthcare facilities and prevention of spread of infections in the community is another research area of her interest. She is the team leader for an interventional study that focuses on improving overall hygiene, focusing on hand hygiene and the introduction of alcohol-based hand rub in healthcare facilities in Central India. The long term aim of this study is to minimize healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and minimize the spread of infections that will lead to minimizing the overall use of antibiotics.