Rajesh Panjabi MD, MPH

Raj Panjabi is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Founder and CEO of Last Mile Health. At age 9, Panjabi narrowly escaped a civil war in his home country of Liberia. He returned to serve the people he had left behind, co-founding Last Mile Health (LMH), which works with the Liberian government to save lives in the world’s most remote villages by giving village health workers the training, equipment, and support they need to perform as professionals. LMH’s work has been recognized by President Bill Clinton, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Big Bang Philanthropy. Named a “Social Disruptor” by the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, Panjabi is a fellow of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Mulago Foundation, and Echoing Green as well as an Advisor in Global Health to the Clinton Global Initiative. He is a recipient of the Global Citizen Movement Award, the Segal Family Foundation Rising Star Award and the Johns Hopkins University Outstanding Recent Alumni Award.