Surbhi Grover

Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine

Adjunct faculty, Universities of Botswana, Witwatersrand, Pretoria, and Cape Town

Surbhi Grover, MD, MPH is the Director of the Program in Global Cancer Innovation at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I), Co-Director of the Center for Global Oncology (CGO), an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Adjunct faculty at the Universities of Botswana, Witwatersrand, Pretoria, and Cape Town. She received her medical education at Harvard Medical School in 2009 before obtaining a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins in 2013. She then went on to complete her internship in internal medicine and residency in the Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Grover is interested in addressing the growing global cancer burden by focusing on public health endeavors and cost-effective clinical initiatives to improve access to care and outcomes of care in developing countries. Her research interests include racial and ethnic disparities in cancer care and outcomes, HIV-related malignancies, implementation and up-scaling of prevention and treatment programs in low resource settings. Since 2011 she has been working with the Botswana-UPENN partnership in developing an oncology program in Botswana. Her research is focused on improving outcomes and quality of life of patients with cervical cancer through HPV based interventions, reducing delays in care and survivorship interventions.

Surbhi’s Work

Thibang Diphatlha: Testing Adaptive Strategies to Close the Gap From Cervical Cancer Diagnosis to Treatment in Botswana

• Clinical Transformation
• Health Equity