Salmaan Keshavjee

Salmaan Keshavjee, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Faculty Dean of Adams House, has transformed global approaches to treating drug-resistant tuberculosis and health delivery in resource-limited settings. After earning multiple degrees including an ScM in Immunology from Harvard School of Public Health, MA and PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and MD from Stanford University, he has built an extraordinary career combining medical anthropology with clinical practice. His groundbreaking work includes establishing successful MDR-TB treatment programs in Tomsk, Russia, and pioneering HIV/MDR-TB co-infection treatment in Lesotho. As former chair of WHO's Green Light Committee Initiative and current Director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Global Health Delivery, he has shaped global policy on tuberculosis treatment. His influential book "Blind Spot" (2014) critically examines how neoliberal ideology has impacted global health delivery, drawing from his extensive ethnographic research in post-Soviet Tajikistan. Through his roles at Partners In Health, where he has served as Senior TB Specialist since 1997, and his leadership positions at Harvard Medical School, he continues to advance innovative approaches to global health delivery while mentoring the next generation of global health leaders.