Lalita Kaligotla

Lalita Kaligotla is an associate clinical professor at the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University with a courtesy appointment at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. Her work is centered on adaptive leadership, civic engagement, interprofessional education and community-based research leveraging human-centered design. She has over two decades of experience launching leadership and community engagement programs at several leading academic institutions. Most recently she served as professor of the practice and senior assistant dean at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and as executive director for the Lillian Carter Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility at Emory University. She has been involved with several extramurally funded projects in the areas of nursing education and healthcare workforce development in Atlanta and across the southeast. During her time at Emory, she also served as faculty director for the Fuld Fellows for Social Responsibility, a scholarship program for high achieving nursing students with a strong commitment to social responsibility. 

Prior to her time at Emory University, Kaligotla served as associate director for the Hart Leadership Program, an endowed leadership development program at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Before that she was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she implemented interdisciplinary curricular and co-curricular leadership and civic engagement programs. She obtained her doctorate in higher education policy and leadership at the University of Georgia and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Kaligotla completed her undergraduate education at the Osmania University college for women in Hyderabad, India and her graduate training in social work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India.