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Rajesh "Raj" Panjabi (born February 3, 1981) is a Liberian Indian American physician. He is the co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health. ^[1] Panjabi also serves on the faculty of the Division of Global Health Equity at Harvard Medical School ^[2] and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.^[3]

At age 9, Panjabi escaped a civil war in his home country of Liberia ^[4]. He returned to Liberia in 2005 as a 24-year-old medical student to serve the people he had left behind, co-founding Last Mile Health ^[5]. Last Mile Health saves lives in the world's most remote communities by partnering with governments to design, scale and advocate for national networks of community health professionals ^[6]. The work of Panjabi and Last Mile Health has been published in the Lancet^[7], the Journal of the American Medical Association^[8], and PLoS Medicine ^[9] and has been featured by TIME ^[10], Fortune ^[11], Forbes ^[12], the Wall Street Journal ^[13], NPR ^[14], and the New York Times ^[15].

In 2016, Panjabi won the $1 million TED Prize for 2017. ^[16] ^[17] ^[18] Following the TED Prize announcement, Bill Gates wrote on Twitter that Panjabi's "commitment to help the world’s poorest is inspiring. This is a well-deserved honor."^[19]

In 2016, TIME Magazine named Panjabi to its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World”, with a tribute from President Bill Clinton, recognizing Last Mile Health's work "to put a health care worker within reach of everyone everywhere." ^[20]

In 2015, Fortune Magazine named Dr. Panjabi one of the "World’s 50 Greatest Leaders," recognizing Last Mile Health's work to support the Liberian Government to build a national community health workforce. ^[21]

Panjabi is a Forbes 400 Philanthropy Fellow ^[22], a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur ^[23], and an Echoing Green Fellow ^[24]. Panjabi is a recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award ^[25], Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from Johns Hopkins University ^[26] , the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ^[27], Harvard Burke Global Health Fellowship ^[28], and the Global Citizen Movement Award ^[29]

Panjabi delivered the commencement address at the graduation of Harvard Medical School in 2015 ^[30] on the "Power of Selflessness." Panjabi delivered testimony at the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy session, "A Progress Report on the West Africa Ebola Epidemic" - arguing investments in rural community health workers can help make health systems responsive to Ebola and future epidemics. ^[31] Panjabi highlighted the role of investing in rural community health workers at the TIME-Fortune Global Forum hosted by His Holiness Pope Francis in 2016. ^[32]

Panjabi was a co-author of the global report, "Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Investment Case and Financing Recommendations." The report found that investment in community health worker (CHW) programs can deliver a high economic return—up to 10:1—and calls on government leaders, international financiers, donors, and the global health community broadly to take specific actions to support the financing and scale up of CHW programs across sub-Saharan Africa. ^[33] ^[34] ^[35]

Panjabi is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, received a Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine and primary care at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

References

[1] ttp://lastmilehealth.org/team/senior-leadership/

[2] ttps://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/31205

[3] ttp://www.brighamandwomens.org/Departments_and_Services/medicine/services/socialmedicine/Panjabi%20Bio.aspx

[4] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q072pYqO4G0

[5] ttp://www.lastmilehealth.org/our-history/

[6] ttp://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2016/08/12/how-liberia-is-working-to-deliver-healthcare-to-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-population/#12c2812b2adf

[7] ttp://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61286-6/abstract

[8] ttp://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/182379

[9] ttp://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002096

[10] ttp://time.com/4434957/ebola-liberia-facility-births/

[11] ttp://fortune.com/video/2016/12/02/last-mile-healths-raj-panjabi/

[12] ttp://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2013/10/03/this-guy-may-have-solved-the-healthcare-model-for-1-billion-people/

[13] ttp://www.wsj.com/articles/a-liberian-emigre-returns-with-help-1406330001

[14] ttp://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/11/24/365689595/ebola-in-remote-liberia-through-the-eyes-of-a-local-health-worker

[15] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/opinion/fighting-ebola-and-the-mud-.html

[16] ttp://time.com/4584987/2017-ted-prize-winner-raj-panjabi/

[17] ttp://blog.ted.com/announcing-2017-ted-prize-winner-raj-panjabi/

[18] ttp://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/01/503994471/a-million-dollar-prize-for-a-doctor-who-goes-the-extra-mile

[19] ttps://mobile.twitter.com/BillGates/status/806960542787239936

[20] ttp://time.com/4302208/raj-panjabi-2016-time-100/

[21] ttp://fortune.com/worlds-greatest-leaders/2015/raj-panjabi-34/

[22] ttp://www.forbes.com/sites/kerenblankfeld/2015/06/05/bill-gates-paul-farmer-and-strive-masiyiwa-on-ebola-epidemic/#54b9cbbd6daa

[23] ttp://www.drkfoundation.org/organization/last-mile-health/

[24] ttp://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/rajesh-panjabi

[25] ttps://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/meetings/annual-meetings/2015/clinton-global-citizen-awards

[26] ttps://alumni.jhu.edu/recentgrad

[27] ttp://global.unc.edu/news/three-receive-distinguished-young-alumni-awards/

[28] ttp://globalhealth.harvard.edu/burke-fellow-rajesh-panjabi

[29] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RE-FuBJBGw

[30] ttps://hms.harvard.edu/news/power-selflessness

[31] ttp://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/040716_Panjabi_Testimony.pdf

[32] ttp://fortune.com/2016/12/06/brainstorm-health-12-06-intro/

[33] ttp://www.who.int/hrh/news/2015/chw_financing/en/

[34] ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-walker/new-report-shows-that-inv_b_7829892.html

[35] ttp://www.healthenvoy.org/new-report-highlights-benefits-from-investments-in-chw-programs/

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 Rajesh "Raj" Panjabi (born February 3, 1981) is a Liberian Indian American physician. He is the co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health. <ref>http://lastmilehealth.org/team/senior-leadership/</ref> Panjabi also serves on the faculty of the Division of Global Health Equity at Harvard Medical School <ref> https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/31205 </ref> and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.<ref>http://www.brighamandwomens.org/Departments_and_Services/medicine/services/socialmedicine/Panjabi%20Bio.aspx</ref>
-At age 9, Panjabi escaped a civil war in his home country of Liberia <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q072pYqO4G0</ref>. He returned to Liberia in 2005 as a 24-year-old medical student to serve the people he had left behind, co-founding Last Mile Health <ref>www.lastmilehealth.org/our-history/</ref>. Last Mile Health saves lives in the world's most remote communities by partnering with governments to design, scale and advocate for national networks of community health professionals <ref> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2016/08/12/how-liberia-is-working-to-deliver-healthcare-to-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-population/#12c2812b2adf </ref>. The work of Panjabi and Last Mile Health has been published in the Lancet<ref>http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61286-6/abstract</ref>, the Journal of the American Medical Association<ref>http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/182379</ref>, and PLoS Medicine <ref>http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002096</ref> and has been featured by TIME <ref>http://time.com/4434957/ebola-liberia-facility-births/</ref>, Fortune <ref>http://fortune.com/video/2016/12/02/last-mile-healths-raj-panjabi/</ref>, Forbes <ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2013/10/03/this-guy-may-have-solved-the-healthcare-model-for-1-billion-people/</ref>, the Wall Street Journal <ref>http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-liberian-emigre-returns-with-help-1406330001</ref>, NPR <ref>http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/11/24/365689595/ebola-in-remote-liberia-through-the-eyes-of-a-local-health-worker</ref>, and the New York Times <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/opinion/fighting-ebola-and-the-mud-.html</ref>.
+At age 9, Panjabi escaped a civil war in his home country of Liberia <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q072pYqO4G0</ref>. He returned to Liberia in 2005 as a 24-year-old medical student to serve the people he had left behind, co-founding Last Mile Health <ref>http://www.lastmilehealth.org/our-history/</ref>. Last Mile Health saves lives in the world's most remote communities by partnering with governments to design, scale and advocate for national networks of community health professionals <ref> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2016/08/12/how-liberia-is-working-to-deliver-healthcare-to-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-population/#12c2812b2adf </ref>. The work of Panjabi and Last Mile Health has been published in the Lancet<ref>http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61286-6/abstract</ref>, the Journal of the American Medical Association<ref>http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/182379</ref>, and PLoS Medicine <ref>http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002096</ref> and has been featured by TIME <ref>http://time.com/4434957/ebola-liberia-facility-births/</ref>, Fortune <ref>http://fortune.com/video/2016/12/02/last-mile-healths-raj-panjabi/</ref>, Forbes <ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2013/10/03/this-guy-may-have-solved-the-healthcare-model-for-1-billion-people/</ref>, the Wall Street Journal <ref>http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-liberian-emigre-returns-with-help-1406330001</ref>, NPR <ref>http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/11/24/365689595/ebola-in-remote-liberia-through-the-eyes-of-a-local-health-worker</ref>, and the New York Times <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/opinion/fighting-ebola-and-the-mud-.html</ref>.
 In 2016, Panjabi won the $1 million TED Prize for 2017. <ref>http://time.com/4584987/2017-ted-prize-winner-raj-panjabi/</ref> <ref> http://blog.ted.com/announcing-2017-ted-prize-winner-raj-panjabi/</ref> <ref> http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/01/503994471/a-million-dollar-prize-for-a-doctor-who-goes-the-extra-mile </ref> Following the TED Prize announcement, Bill Gates wrote on Twitter that Panjabi's "commitment to help the world’s poorest is inspiring. This is a well-deserved honor."<ref> https://mobile.twitter.com/BillGates/status/806960542787239936 </ref>