Priya Arumuganathan, MD, MPH
Research Affiliate
- Emergency & Global Medicine Faculty | Medical University of South Carolina
- Pakistan | Uganda | Nicaragua | Honduras
- EM Education and Training | Emergency Care Capacity Building | Emergency Medicine | Emergency Medicine in LMICs | Emergency Medicine Training | Health Equity | Rual Health | Telemedicine | Women's health
Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Beginner)
Bio statement
Dr. Priya Arumuganathan is an emergency physician and Global Emergency Medicine faculty member at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she also serves as the Global Director of Clinical Quality & Systems at OneWorld Health, a global health nonprofit. In that role, she partners with clinical teams across multiple countries to standardize key performance indicators, improve clinical quality, and build sustainable systems for care delivery in resource-limited settings.
Originally from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, Dr. Arumuganathan completed her medical school and residency training at West Virginia University, where she took part in the Global Health Track, served as Chief Resident, and conducted telestroke research within rural critical access hospitals. Her rural background and training gave her a strong foundation for working in low-resource environments and sparked an early interest in global health that first took shape through clinical work abroad.
She went on to complete her MPH and a Global Emergency Medicine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where her work focused on creating curricula and building capacity to advance the specialty of Emergency Medicine worldwide. During her time at Penn, she was honored with the Neal Nathanson Award for Excellence in Global Public Health. She is currently completing her MBA at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, with a focus on Health Sector Management.
Over time, Dr. Arumuganathan’s interests have evolved from direct clinical global health work toward a systems-based approach to improving access and quality of care. She is particularly focused on how data, operational structure, and local capacity-building can be leveraged to drive consistent, scalable improvements in healthcare delivery. Across her roles, her work sits at the intersection of clinical care, quality improvement, and systems design, and she plans to continue building toward the long-term goal of developing sustainable, locally driven solutions to global healthcare delivery challenges.
Recent global health projects
One of Dr. Arumuganathan’s most recent projects includes teaching within the Certificate Program in Emergency Medicine (CPEM) in Pakistan – a program designed to equip physicians with fundamental emergency care knowledge and to improve the quality of emergency care in Pakistan. She is also assisting the development of a telemedicine initiative in rural Pakistan to improve healthcare access for remote populations.
Selected publications
Ali S, Saleem SG, Arumuganathan P, Mukhtar S, Khatri A, Rybarczyk M. Harnessing predictive analytics to support high-risk learners in a one-year certification program in emergency medicine (CPEM) in Pakistan. Med Teach. 2025 Jun 18:1-8. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2025.2519645. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40528447.
Arumuganathan, P., Findley, S. (2024). Emergency Department Triage. International Emergency Medicine Clerkship Book 2023/2024. iEM Education Project. Retrieved from: https://iem-student.org/2024/12/01/emergency-department-triage-2024/
Arumuganathan, P., Adcock, A. K., Espinosa, C., & Findley, S. (2023). Analysis of Telestroke Usage in Rural Critical Access Emergency Departments. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 10.1089/tmj.2022.0408. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2022.0408
Last Updated: 08 July 2026