Raj Panjabi

Overview

Raj Panjabi is CEO of Last Mile Health and Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. At age 9 Dr. Panjabi escaped a civil war in his home country of Liberia. He returned as a 24 year old medical student to serve the people he had left behind and co founded Last Mile Health. Last Mile Health saves lives in the world s most remote communities by partnering with governments to design scale and advocate for national networks of community health professionals. Last Mile Health s work has been published in the Lancet the Journal of the American Medical Association and PLoS Medicine and has been featured by TIME Fortune Forbes the Wall Street Journal NPR and the New York Times. In 2016 TIME Magazine named Dr. Panjabi to its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World with a tribute from President Bill Clinton. In 2015 Fortune Magazine named Dr. Panjabi one of the World s 50 Greatest Leaders recognizing Last Mile Health s work to support the Liberian Government to build a national community health workforce. Dr. Panjabi is a Forbes 400 Philanthropy Fellow a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur and an Echoing Green Fellow. He is a recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina and the Global Citizen Movement Award. Dr. Panjabi is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine received a Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital.