[7] Following her appointment, Malani worked alongside Michael Heung, Jonathan Segal, and Therese Adamowski in the Divisions of Nephrology and Geriatric Medicine to co-author a study detailing the safety approach for preventing falls among hemodialysis patients.
[9] A few years later, she was appointed the Chief Health Officer for the University of Michigan as a replacement for Robert Winfield.
[10] She also helped launch the National Poll on Healthy Aging based at University of Michigan's Institute for Health Policy and Innovation focusing on health-related issues facing older Americans.
[12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Malani co-published COVID-19—New Insights on a Rapidly Changing Epidemic[13] and released guidelines for students returning to school.
[14] In February 2020, Malani co-authored an article for JAMA containing important updates on the clinical features of COVID-19 for medical professionals to use in their evaluations of patients.