Joia Mukherjee

Dr. Joia Mukherjee is a physician, educator, and activist, trained in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and public health. Dr. Mukherjee served as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health for 25 years and is currently the Senior Advisor on Clinical and Academic Strategy at PIH an international medical charity with programs in the United States, Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Peru, and Kazakhstan. Joia coordinates and supports PIH’s efforts to provide high quality, comprehensive health care to the poorest and most vulnerable. She is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and on the faculty at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Dr. Mukherjee teaches infectious disease, global health delivery, and human rights to health professionals and students from around the world. Dr. Mukherjee directs the Masters degree program in Global Health Delivery and is the Director and Advisory Dean of the F.W. Peabody Society at Harvard Medical. She is the author of Introduction to Global Health Delivery: Practice, Equity, Human Rights, a textbook published in 2017 by Oxford University Press, second edition 2021. Her scholarship focuses on the health delivery, Universal Health Coverage, and human rights. Joia is a mother and a singer.