Sonika Bhatnagar, MD, MPH, FAAP, is senior director of Pediatric Population Health at the UPMC Health Plan and adjunct associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is a pediatrician with a passion for public health, specifically to improve child population health outcomes and quality of life by developing strategies and interventions to impact the social determinants of health and quality of healthcare for all children, in under-resourced and resourced areas.

Dr. Bhatnagar earned her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine before completing her pediatric residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She earned her master’s degree in public health, specializing in healthcare policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health, along with a certificate in leadership principles from the Harvard Business School Online.

View Dr. Bhatnagar's full list of publications from PubMed.

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