Geetha Iyer is a Research Scientist in the Therapeutics and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group at the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. She is a trained physician with a postgraduate degree in Pharmacology from India. She has a PhD in Population Health Sciences (field: Epidemiology) from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and her ScM in Clinical Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.