PGY-2, Harvard Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Boston Medical Center
Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is a health equity advocate, health services researcher, and future internist-pediatrician. He is a resident in the Harvard Internal Medicine & Pediatrics (“Med-Peds”) combined residency program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Boston Medical Center. He has a wide array of research and advocacy focus areas including racial/spatial inequities in access to care; intersections of incarceration, health, and health policy; structural competency in medical education; and redressing racism in medicine through clinic, institution, and policy-level interventions.
Rohan’s work broadly aims to advance health equity for and with marginalized populations. He completed medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (’22), where he co-founded and longitudinalized a new community-engaged structural competency curriculum and conducted research on race and place-based inequities in HIV and COVID-19 outcomes. He is also a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (’21), where his M.P.H. practicum with the Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab leveraged novel cross-sector data from the Minnesota EHR Consortium to inform local and state COVID-19 policies. He has been active in health policy, including leading the writing and adoption of landmark American Medical Association resolutions on racism as a public health threat, racial essentialism in medicine, redressing the harms of the Flexner Report on health workforce diversity, reparative interventions in medicine, and closing the racial wealth gap.
Rohan is a Research Affiliate with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. He is an appointed member of the Lancet Commission on Racism & Health and a Strategic Advisory Council member for the Rise to Health Coalition. He recently served as a consultant for the NYC Health Department Chief Medical Officer’s Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms (CERCA) and was lead author of CERCA’s inaugural report.