Sanam Roder-DeWan

Sanam Roder-DeWan

Technical Lead, Global Practice Service Delivery, Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank

Sanam Roder-DeWan serves as the technical lead for the World Bank Group’s Service Delivery Redesign portfolio in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice Service Delivery Team. She is an Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and a Health Equity Faculty Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute. She works with diverse stakeholders to study, design, and implement people-centered health system reforms to improve equity, quality and outcomes for mothers and children globally. Sanam uses a mix of research methods to better understand how communities interact with health systems and how the design of systems can be improved to enable higher quality care. She has practiced medicine in community health centers and hospitals globally focusing on the dyad care of mother and child. She earned a BA and MD from the University of Pennsylvania, a DrPH from Harvard, and completed her specialty training at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency Program.