Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston Medical Center	Residency	06/2026	Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
University of Nebraska Medical Center	MD	05/2022	Enhanced Medical Education Track: Comprehensive HIV Care
University of Minnesota School of Public Health	MPH	05/2021	Health Services Research, Policy, & Administration
Washington University in St. Louis	BA	05/2017	Biology: Neuroscience, Music, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is a health services researcher and internist-pediatrician. He is a resident physician 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 is also a research affiliate at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, where he studies the health impacts of structural adversity in childhood and adolescence, racial/spatial inequities in access to care, and intersections of racism and carceral systems within clinical care, public health, and health policy.

Rohan's clinical and extraclinical work broadly focus on advancing health equity for and with marginalized populations, with particular interests in redressing the (mis)use of race in clinical algorithms and improving the health of families and individuals who interface with carceral systems. His research has been published in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine; has been cited in federal regulatory guidance and state legislation; and has been covered in leading news outlets including the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, CNN, STAT, PBS, The Guardian, and more.

Rohan's public service experience includes work with the NYC Health Department’s Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms (CERCA) as lead author of CERCA’s inaugural report and with two state Medicaid programs on re-entry coverage for incarcerated youth & adults. He has provided expert testimony to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on antiracism in medicine and regulatory interventions to redress the harms of race-based clinical algorithms. He is an appointed commissioner on The Lancet’s Commission on Antiracism in Solidarity and a strategic advisory council member for the Rise to Health Coalition, two national initiatives seeking to embed equity across the healthcare ecosystem. As a voting delegate in the AMA House of Delegates (2018-present) and member of the Council on Medical Education (2020-22), he has led the writing and adoption of seminal policies on structural racism as a public health threat, racial essentialism, reparative interventions to redress the harms of the Flexner Report on health workforce diversity and race-based medicine on health & economic outcomes, and closing the racial wealth gap, each of which helped fundamentally reshape the organization’s efforts to advance health equity.