Abha Shrestha, M.D. is a Lecturer at Department of Community Medicine. She is a Coordinator at Nepal National Non-Communicable Diseases, Injury and Poverty (NCDIP) Commission (formed under the auspices of the Lancet Commission). Dr. Shrestha is the fellow for Translational Research on Cardiovascular Diseases in Nepal (TREIN), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, USA. She is a postgraduate doctor from School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal. Dr. Shrestha is interested in Health Literacy and empowering the patients in their management of chronic diseases. She initiated Hypertension and Diabetes chronic care model in the outreach centers of Dhulikhel hospital. She is co-director of World Diabetes funded project that empowers Nurses for Diabetes prevention and management in Nepal. Dr. Shrestha is also involved in mhealth integrated model, developing the electronic decision support systems to empower the frontline health worker to screen, detect and refer the Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension in rural Nepal. Dr. Shrestha was a scholar at Global Health Delivery Intensive course in 2018 at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA. She is Currently the COVID-19 Rapid Response Team member at Dhulikhel Hospital Kathmandu University Hospital where she is involved in supervising the helpline calls, case contact and timely referral and management through Nepal COVID-19 Surveillance System and taking care of hospital COVID-19 Triage System at DHKUH.