Dr. Raj Panjabi is CEO of Last Mile Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Raj grew up in Liberia and fled Liberia’s civil war with his family when he was nine years old, becoming a refugee in the United States of America. He returned to Liberia as a medical student and then in 2007 co-founded Last Mile Health, a non-profit organization working to save lives in the world’s most remote communities by partnering with governments to design, scale, strengthen, and sustain high-quality community health systems.
Raj was named by TIME as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World and one of the 50 Most Influential People in Healthcare and currently serves as a Beck Visiting Social Innovator at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
