Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH

Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is an adult and pediatric hospitalist at Boston Medical Center and a health policy research fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He recently completed his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency training with the Harvard Med-Peds Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Boston Medical Center. He is also a research affiliate with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Rohan broadly strives to advance health equity for and with marginalized populations, with a particular focus on children, young adults, and families involved in the child welfare, juvenile justice, adult criminal-legal, and immigrant detention systems. His research has sought to improve access to care and health outcomes for 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 work has been published in journals including NEJM, Health Affairs, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and JGIM and has been covered in outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and STAT. It has had tangible policy impacts, including being referenced in federal regulations on the use of race in clinical algorithms, changing hospital guidelines on the care of incarcerated patients, and influencing state legislation to end mandatory child welfare reporting for prenatal substance exposure. Locally, he serves on the scientific advisory council for the Transformational Prison Project, a restorative justice-focused organization founded and led by formerly incarcerated individuals.