Prakathesh Rabeenthira is a Research Associate at VHA Home HealthCare. Previously, he worked as an Operations Support Assistant and Research Assistant with VHA.

Prakathesh received an Honours Bachelor of Science degree (with High Distinction) in Life Sciences from the University of Toronto, with majors in Microbiology, Immunology, and Disease and Biochemistry. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Guelph. Prakathesh also works with the Public Health Agency of Canada – National Microbiology Laboratory as a Policy/Research Analyst for the National Wastewater Monitoring Program.

His research interests include infectious disease epidemiology and modeling, health policy, health services, and quantitative and biostatistical methodology.