Salmaan Keshavjee
Assistant Professor
Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Biography
Dr. Keshavjee is an Assistant Professor in Social Medicine and in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He conducted doctoral research in medical anthropology at Harvard University on the health transition in post-Soviet Tajikistan. He currently works with the Division of Global Health Equity and Partners In Health on the implementation of a multidrug-resistant TB treatment program in Tomsk, Russia, and a program to treat patients co-infected with HIV and multidrug- resistant TB in Lesotho. In addition, Dr. Keshavjee serves as the chair of the Green Light Committee Initiative, which helps countries gain access to high-quality second-line anti-TB drugs so they can provide treatment for people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in line with the WHO guidelines, the latest scientific evidence and country experiences. He is also a member of the steering committee for the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Dr. Keshavjee received his PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard in 1998 and his MD from Stanford in 2001. He completed his research-science residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2005. In addition to his appointment with the Division, Dr. Keshavjee serves on the faculty of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM) at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Global Health Equity (DGHE) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an attending physician in the Department of Medicine at BWH.