
Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is an internist-pediatrician and health services researcher. He is a resident physician in the Harvard Med-Peds 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. Rohan's clinical and extraclinical work broadly strives to advance health equity for and with marginalized populations. His research aims to improve access to care and health outcomes among children, young adults, and families affected by stigmatized conditions (substance use disorders, serious mental illness, and infectious diseases); redress the (mis)use of race in clinical algorithms; and examine intersections of health and carceral systems. His research has been published in journals including NEJM, Health Affairs, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and JGIM and has been covered in news outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, STAT, and Kaiser Family Foundation. His work has had tangible policy impacts, including being referenced in federal regulations on the use of race in clinical algorithms and influencing state legislation to end mandatory child welfare reporting for prenatal substance exposure. Rohan's prior public service experience includes work with two state Medicaid programs on re-entry coverage for incarcerated youth & adults. He advised the NYC Health Department’s Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms as lead author of CERCA’s inaugural report and is currently a health services research consultant to the New York Academy of Medicine assisting with program evaluations at CERCA health systems. He has been invited to the NASEM twice to testify on organizational 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 public health and healthcare ecosystems. As a voting delegate in the AMA House of Delegates (2018-present) and member of the AMA Council on Medical Education (2020-22), he led the writing and adoption of foundational AMA policies on structural racism as a public health threat, racial essentialism in medicine, redressing the Flexner Report’s impact on workforce diversity, repairing the health and economic harms of race-based medicine, and ending the federal Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy.
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Resident Physician | Department of Internal Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Jun 2022 - Present
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Research Affiliate | Racial Justice & Data Science
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
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Jan 2023 - Present
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Health Services Research Consultant
The New York Academy of Medicine
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Jan 2025 - Present
Resident Physician | Department of Pediatrics
Boston Medical Center (BMC)
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Jun 2022 - Present
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Resident Physician | Department of Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital
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Jun 2022 - Present
Boston, Massachusetts, United States