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Change-Maker Sejal Hathi ’13 on Building a Healthier and More Just Society

Social innovator Dr. Sejal Hathi ’13 was inspired to pursue medicine as a career by her own patient experiences as teen. “I realized how critical health is to achieving self-actualization: that quality care is a foundational human right, because without it, no matter a person’s other resources, intellect, education, or talents, no individual can aspire to beyond her basic needs.” Join Sejal and fellow alums in a conversation about health as a requisite for self-actualization, social entrepreneurship, and global empowerment of women and girls.

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Dr. Sejal Hathi ’13

Dr. Sejal Hathi ’13

Sejal is currently the White House Senior Policy Advisor for Public Health, a board-certified internal medicine physician and joint faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. As founder of two global social enterprises, Girls Helping Girls and Girltank, she advanced women’s and girls’ agency in some of the most impoverished regions of the world.

As a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Sejal cared for COVID-19 patients, prompting her to create Civic Rx, a podcast to inspire more reflection and conversation about how we can build a healthier and more just society. She's served on numerous national boards related to public service and public health, including inseparable, which advocates for affordable, high-quality mental health care for all Americans, and is a founding board member of Indiaspora, a network of global Indian origin leaders from diverse backgrounds and professions who are committed to inspiring the diaspora to be a force for good.  

She holds a MD/MBA from Stanford University, where she studied as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. Among other honors, she’s been named to the Forbes 30 under 30, Newsweek's "150 Women Who Shake the World", Glamour's Amazing Young Women of the Year, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards, and World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

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