Raj Panjabi
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Dr. Raj Panjabi

Improving Rural Health Care

A Harvard Medical School professor who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Liberia, Panjabi co-founded Last Mile Health to recruit and train community health workers in areas that lack local health services. Last Mile’s efforts were crucial in fighting Ebola from 2014 to 2016, and now Panjabi is building Community Health Academy, a mobile platform for training health care workers remotely through video and audio instruction. —Robin Marty

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