Dr. Yashodani Pillay (BSc, PhD) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the Centre for International Child Health at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. She has a PhD in Medical Biochemistry from the University of KwaZulu-Natalin Durban, South Africa where she worked on environmental toxicology with collaborative projects in HIV and maternal and newborn health. Currently, as a global health researcher, she has dedicated her focus on maternal and pediatric sepsis, digital innovations, and quality improvement. She is currently leading the Smart Discharges for Mom & Baby project in Uganda, which aims to develop, validate, and implement an innovative precision public health approach to improving post-discharge post-delivery care for mother-newborn dyads in Uganda. She is also leading implementation of Smart Triage in Uganda and Kenya – a data-driven approach to improving the quality of care for children treated for severe infectious illness at health facilities in low-resource settings.

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Sepsis, Maternal and Newborn Health, Quality Improvement, Global Health

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ORCID: 0000-0002-5814-7975