Joia Mukherjee, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Partners In Health

Dr. Mukherjee is an Associate Professor with Harvard Medical School in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Since 2000, she has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health, an international medical non-profit with clinical programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Lesotho, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan, and inner-city Boston. She trained in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Mukherjee has been
involved in health care access and human rights issues since 1989 in the United States, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Dr. Mukherjee consults for the World Health Organization on the treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing countries. Her scholarly work focuses on the human rights aspect of HIV treatment and on the implementation of complex health interventions in resource- poor settings.