Dr. Richa Ahuja is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Excellence on Safety Engineering and Analytics (CoE‑SEA), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She earned her Ph.D. in Road Safety from IIT Delhi, where her research examined post‑crash accessibility to emergency care in urban India. Her doctorate work integrates transportation engineering with public health, focusing on trauma care systems, emergency medical response in low‑ and middle‑income countries, and the policy to practice paradigms. She has contributed to global studies on layperson emergency medical systems, dispatcher‑coordinated taxis for trauma transport, and socio‑economic costs of road traffic injuries. Her current work advances evidence‑based strategies to strengthen emergency medical services, reduce injury burden, and embed health resilience into data analytics, health surveillance, infrastructure and safety standards.