She is a member of the core faculty of the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Program at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. She has served as Associate Director of the MBA/MPH Program and taught healthcare finance and management at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and School of Public Health. She has held appointments as senior researcher at the Institute for Global Health, a research unit of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and UCSF School of Medicine, where she served as Director for Monitoring and Evaluation, CDC/Global AIDS Program University Technical Assistance Partners project. Recently completed projects include an evaluation of provincial-level HIV/AIDS programs in Banteay Mean Chey, Cambodia and an M&E capacity needs assessment in Mozambique.

Dr. Dratler has extensive experience having served 25 years as a senior healthcare manager in hospitals and health systems in the Minneapolis and San Francisco markets. Over the past ten years, her efforts have been focused on capacity building in developing countries with an emphasis on management development. She has conducted management training in Egypt, India, Thailand and China. Dr. Dratler received her Master in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota and her DrPH from the University of California (1999). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Accounting) from the University of Denver.