Rajesh Ramesh Panjabi

Rajesh Ramesh Panjabi is Co-Founder/CEO of Last Mile Health and an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He fled Liberia’s civil war at age 9 and returned as a medical student to co-found Last Mile Health, focusing on scaling community health systems in resource-limited settings.

• Education:
• MD from University of North Carolina School of Medicine
• Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Internal Medicine and Primary Care Residency and Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

His work emphasizes equitable healthcare access, global health systems strengthening, and partnerships with governments to build sustainable health infrastructures. His research has been published in high-impact journals like Lancet, JAMA, and PLoS Medicine.

Awardees include TIME’s 100 Most Influential People (2016), Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders (2015), and multiple philanthropy and social entrepreneurship accolades.

Dr. Panjabi’s initiatives focus on training community health workers, maternal health, and pandemic response in remote regions. Last Mile Health collaborates with governments to design scalable health systems, as highlighted in partnerships with Liberia’s health ministry.