Asha Shajahan MD, MHSA

Asha Shajahan is a board certified family physician. She also has a master’s degree in Health Services Administration. She completed a faculty fellowship in underserved populations at the University of California, San Diego. She is the medical director of community health for the Beaumont Hospital in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Her interest in health policy and health disparities led her to intern for former United States Senator Carl Levin in Washington DC. She was also a senior healthcare intern for the Office of the former Governor Jennifer Granholm, where she worked to augment healthcare access for the uninsured in Detroit. She has volunteered at several underserved health clinics and non-profits in the Detroit-area. She sits on numerous nonprofit boards. Dr. Shajahan is dedicated to educating physicians on improving community health through the understanding of social determinants and cultural dexterity.

Her passion for homeless and vulnerable populations led her to start a Street Medicine curriculum for the Beaumont family medicine residences and to design the first elective available for all Beaumont residents in social equity focusing on unconscious bias, environmental health, minority health, drug addiction, refugee health, and human trafficking.

Dr. Shajahan won the 2019 Joyce Ivy Woman of Impact Award and is a 2017 Crain’s Detroit 40 under 40 winner for her work in disparities. She was also named the Diversity Champion for Beaumont Health in 2018 by the Race Relations and Diversity Taskforce of Michigan. She has taught unconscious bias across the Beaumont medical education system. She has received numerous recognitions including 2019 Community Impact Award from DIWA, the Faculty Excellence in Service Award in 2016 from OUWB and the Faculty Teacher of the Year awarded in 2014 from Beaumont Grosse Pointe’s Department of Family Medicine.

She is also involved in health advocacy around misinformation and public health. She completed a graduate program at Harvard School of Medicine entitled Media and Medicine and is a current Alfred Landecker Democracy fellow. She has written several Op-Eds in national publications, had television appearances and public speaking engagements on health advocacy. As a podcast host for the award winning Beaumont HouseCall, Dr. Shajahan believes media is a powerful tool to deliver health information to the public that should be factual and transparent.