Dr Farhat Mantoo has a specialisation in medical anthropology, communication, hospital management and human resources apart from being trained in humanitarian assistance linked to international humanitarian affairs.

She is presently the General Director of MSF India. Her primary research interests are in the application and relevance of low-cost quality medical innovations and implementation of them in humanitarian medicine. This includes technologies for measuring and motivating health-related behaviours to have larger impact.

During her 17 years of serving in MSF, Farhat worked in in Asia (India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh) Europe and East Africa (South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya) with MSF and other organisations in management and leadership roles.

Since August 2021 she is serving on the board of Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative India Foundation.