Vikram Patel is The New Global Health Chair at Harvard Medical School

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He is currently the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in HMS’ Blavatnik Institute. Patel will be succeeding Paul Farmer, who led the department until his death in February 2022, from Sep 1, 2023.

Patel has served on several World Health Organization advisory committees.

In 2015, he was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year and, in 2019, he was awarded the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, considered the most prestigious global health prize.