Rithika is a global health professional. At CPC Analytics, she works as an analyst for global health policy and research for the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin. She is a recipient of the German Chancellor Fellowship (2020-21) awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office. As part of this research fellowship, she independently explored the foreign-policy initiatives influencing global health security at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. Before that, she worked extensively on public health governance in India. Rithika holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Manipal University, India and a Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences & Biochemistry from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.