Ms Kritika Dixit is the Research Manager at Birat Nepal Medical Trust and a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet. Ms Dixit holds Masters's in Global Health from Thaammasat University, Thailand, completed in 2015. She has over ten years of experience designing and managing large-scale research activities as a public health researcher, including Post-Disaster Rehabilitation, people-centric tuberculosis diagnosis, and care, cost evaluation, and COVID-19 and TB co-infection. Recently, her research aims to explore barriers to healthcare access and to provide evidence to inform people centric healthcare models to improve equity in communities. She has received early career research grant awards from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Farrar Foundation and BNMT UK.