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Dr. Nisha Nadesan-Reddy is a Public Health Medicine Specialist with more than a decade of experience leading multi-country externally funded health programmes at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Her expertise focuses on health systems strengthening, research capacity development, and addressing climate-related health threats. Currently serving as Project Manager for two major international grants, the £2.3M NIHR WEATHER initiative and the £2.5M Wellcome Trust CHI² project, she is working with the project team to develop scalable, evidence-based interventions that strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income settings. Her work creates early warning systems for extreme weather events and examines heat impacts on childhood respiratory health across Sub-Saharan Africa. Her career spans global health leadership roles, from managing the Medical Education Partnership Initiative to co-directing the UKZN hub of the African HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Health Implementation Research Institute. Through NIH-funded programmes like DRILL and Data-Science for Africa, she has mentored over 25 healthcare professionals in research capacity development while building partnerships between universities, governments, and international collaborators.   Currently pursuing a PhD on climate-resilient health systems in KwaZulu-Natal, she integrates research, policy, and community engagement to create equitable health interventions. For more information about her research, visit her ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nisha_Nadesan-Reddy