Sandra Albert is the Director of the Indian Institute of Public Health in Shillong (IIPHShillong), in northeast India. She is a dermatologist with an MD in Skin & SexuallyTransmitted Infections from the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. From clinical medicine, she broadened her field of interest to public health and received a Doctor ofPublic Health (DrPH) from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.Subsequently, she became the founding director of the IIPHShillong. Her research interests include health systems, health policy, skin disorders, sexual and reproductive health, vector-borne diseases, and indigenous knowledge. The IIPH Shillong was established to redress the limited institutional and systems capacity in public health in the northeast region of India.