Kavita VENKATARAMAN is currently an Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. She was previously with the WHO Country Office for India. Dr Venkataraman is a clinician, epidemiologist, and health services researcher, with research interests in the areas of cardiometabolic diseases with a specific focus on diabetes and its complications, rehabilitation care, care integration, patient perspectives of care, and patient-reported outcomes. She has authored several articles in reputed international journals, has several competitively funded research projects, completed and ongoing in these areas and is currently a recipient of the National Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist as Senior Investigator. She has worked closely with national (Ministry of Health, public health clusters), and international (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the UK) partners, with the goal of effectively translating research evidence i