Harvard Medical School Alumni, Class of 2026
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine Resident
Chris graduated from Yale College in 2020 with a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Economics. He then spent two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital Medical Practice Evaluation Center performing cost-effectiveness analyses of domestic and global public health interventions. At Harvard Medical School, Chris continued to contribute to public health and health policy-relevant research, focusing on preventive screenings, vaccine safety, and social drivers of health. As part of Mass EQLHS, Chris was interested in improving healthcare delivery and care access for all populations.

Harvard Medical School

Dorsa graduated in 2021 from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Public Health. During her time at UC Berkeley, she was a member of the Fung Fellowship, where she leveraged human-centered design, community-based participatory research, and digital technology to solve public health challenges facing underserved populations often excluded from health innovations. As a current MD candidate at Harvard Medical School and member of Mass EQLHS, her goal is to explore HCD’s potential role in enhancing patient and public engagement in LHS to address gaps in health innovation and healthcare delivery. 

Harvard Medical School Alumni, Class of 2025

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Internal Medicine & Primary Care Resident

Sahil is a recent MD graduate from Harvard Medical School, a Samvid Scholar alumni, and is currently a resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a Foster Scholar at the Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed his self-designed bachelor’s degree in health innovation at Duke University. He studied the use of evidence-based practice to design, implement, and evaluate new health innovations, from artificial intelligence tools to new value-based payment models. While at Duke, he founded a community resource navigator program to help patients connect to resources for their social needs such food insecurity and housing instability. He then completed his master’s in health services research at Newcastle University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar, where he evaluated social prescribing models to integrate health and social services. At Harvard Medical School, he continued to lead research and policy projects on healthcare strategies to improve healthcare outcomes for all. His work has resulted in over three dozen publications in journals such as the New England Journalof Medicine, JAMA, and JAMA Internal Medicine. Working at the intersection of clinical medicine, care delivery transformation, and health policy, Sahil aspires to become a physician committed to building a stronger healthcare system.

Mass General Brigham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mawra was a Learning Health System Research Fellow at Mass EQLHS and a postdoctoral fellow in cardiovascular imaging at Mass General Brigham. Her research focuses on advanced cardiac MRI and vascular aging. She has previously worked with the Framingham Heart Study and Jackson Heart Study, examining how lifestyle and behavioral factors influence arterial stiffness and long-term cardiovascular risk. She is also the founder of MAMTA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving metabolic health literacy in rural India. Through MAMTA, she leads community-based initiatives such as promoting continuous home blood-pressure monitoring in villages without access to BP devices, increasing awareness of metabolic diseases, and addressing barriers to health-seeking behavior. At Mass EQLHS, Mawra was interested in understanding how investigators meaningfully engage patient partners in research. Her work emphasizes human-centered design, co-production, and approaches that ensure patient perspectives drive innovation within learning health systems.