Dr. Budhwani is a Professor in the Florida State University (FSU) College of Nursing, Adjunct Professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Organization, and Visiting Professor in the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS).

As an interventionist, Dr. Budhwani conducts pragmatic clinical trials to address the causes and consequences of health disparities among stigmatized populations that experience adverse health outcomes in resource-constrained settings, both domestically and globally. Dr. Budhwani applies community-engaged approaches to build authentic and durable collaborations with scientific stakeholders and beneficiaries of her research, including but not limited to adolescents, women, sexual and gender minorities, and racial and immigrant minorities. Her implementation science scholarship is informed by sociological constructs, guided by human rights frameworks, and adopts a multidimensional view of how to address public health and clinical care inequities. Over the past two decades, Dr. Budhwani has led public health programs and research studies in eighteen countries.