President

Priyank Jain is a clinician-educator at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, focused on innovation in medical education and improving healthcare access for vulnerable  populations.  He is  the associate program director for the primary care internal medicine residency training program at CHA and associate chief hospitalist of the division of hospital medicine. Priyank completed his medical training in India at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and has strong ties to global health initiatives in the region. 

His work includes developing competency-based curricula and novel teaching methods to enhance clinical reasoning. Priyank is a member of the Cambridge Health Alliance AI Technologies Committee, which reviews all AI-related projects at the institution. He is also conducting academic research on the use of AI for clinical reasoning. His previous work includes technology applications for healthcare, such as tele-consulting in rural India and point-of-care ultrasound.

Chief Research Officer

Sarah Nabia is a Research Faculty member in the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control (GDEC) program at the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds an MPH and MBA from Johns Hopkins University, USA, and an MA in Political Economy from King’s College London, UK. Trained in Economics, Sarah transitioned to public health to work with female sex workers in HIV prevention programs—an experience that shaped her commitment to health equity. Based at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), she focuses on implementation science and health systems research to improve the uptake of childhood and maternal vaccines in low- and middle-income countries. She has led multi-country, mixed-methods studies across Asia and Africa examining barriers to vaccine delivery and frontline health worker performance. She also co-edited COVID-19: A View from the Margins, exploring how marginalized communities in India experienced and responded to the pandemic.

Chief Medical Officer

Anup Agarwal is currently a Hospitalist at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, USA. He completed medical school from Stanley Medical College in South India and residency is Internal Medicine at Westchester Medical Center in New York. He did a Global Health Fellowship at UCSF during which he worked at Jan Swasthya Sahyog in Central India and Last Mile Health in Liberia. After working in remote resource-limited settings for two years he joined the Indian Council of Medical Research, where he led the PLACID Trial, a multicentric, randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19. He has authored over 20 peer reviewed publications including high impact factor journals like NEJM, the BMJ and JAMA Open. Additionally, he co-edited a book with Oxford University Press titled “50 Studies Every Global Health Provider Should Know”. He has also done advocacy writing based on his work with marginalised populations in rural India, Liberia, Delhi. His advocacy work has featured in leading Indian Newspapers and in the New York Times.