Gaurav Sharma is a public health physician, epidemiologist and health services researcher from Nepal with more than 14 years of clinical, research and programmatic experience in maternal and newborn health. He has worked in many low-resource settings and is particularly interested in improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health. Gaurav completed a PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2017. His PhD research focused on examining the relationship between hospital management practices and the quality of obstetric and neonatal care in rural India. Gaurav is interested in implementation research to improve clinical practices and strengthen obstetric and neonatal care in LMIC settings. Gaurav qualified as a medical doctor in 2003 and obtained a MSc in public health from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom in 2007.