Dr. Joia Mukherjee

Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH, is an internist, pediatrician, and infectious disease physician specializing in global health delivery and social medicine. She serves as Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she is Advisory Dean and Director of the Francis Weld Peabody Society, Director of the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery program, and Director of the Program in Global Medical Education and Social Change. She is also Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Senior Clinical and Academic Advisor at Partners In Health, and a faculty member at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Dr. Mukherjee’s clinical work focuses on infectious diseases and outbreak response in resource-constrained settings, maternal and child health, and community-based primary care delivery. Her research interests center on implementation science, health systems strengthening, and equity-focused global health policy and care delivery. Across her academic and field-based work, she has advanced models of care that integrate social medicine, public health infrastructure, and community partnership. Her leadership roles have included serving as Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health, chairing the board of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, and serving on the boards of Muso, Village Health Works, and Physicians for Human Rights. Her honors include the Hero of Humanity Award, the Drapkin Award for Humanism in Medicine, the Marshall Wolf Award in Medical Education, and multiple honorary doctorates. Dr. Mukherjee earned her MD from the University of Minnesota Medical School, completed a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of Minnesota Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, pursued an Infectious Diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and received an MPH in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.