At UCSF, Dr. Dandu spends much of her time on the inpatient clinical and consults services supervising and teaching medical students and residents. Her main non-clinical interest is in Global Health education. She is the Associate Director of the Pathway in Global Health and in that capacity directs the Office of International Programs at the Medical School. In addition, she is director of the Global Health Area of Distinction for the Internal Medicine Residency, a program designed to provide training and exposure to global health for internal medicine residents. Her main research interest has been in health and human rights education. She co-teaches the Health and Human Rights fall medical student elective and is currently working on a human rights education curriculum.

In addition to her Global Health work, she continues her work in public health education at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health as the academic coordinator for the one-year Interdisciplinary MPH program. There she helps coordinate the curriculum, provides mentoring, and co-teaches the interdisciplinary seminar.