Joia Mukherjee
Chief Medical Officer, Partners in Health; Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joia Mukherjee
Joia Mukherjee MD, MPH is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health (PIH), an international medical charity dedicated to providing a preferential option for the poor in healthcare.

She is an internist, a paediatrician, an infectious disease doctor and public health specialist. Dr. Mukherjee has been Chief Medical Officer of PIH since 2000, supporting PIH’s efforts to provide high quality, comprehensive health care to the poorest and most vulnerable in partnership with local communities and health officials in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Navajo Nation.

Dr. Mukherjee’s clinical foci include HIV, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, mental health, ebola, human resources for health, and health systems strengthening. She is involved in the direct implementation of health programs as well as scholarship in these arenas.