Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is an aspiring adult & pediatric hospitalist and health services researcher. He is a resident physician in the Harvard Med-Peds Residency Program at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Boston Medical Center. He is also a research affiliate with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab at Hennepin County Medical Center. At BMC, he received grant funding from the Joel and Barbara Alpert Endowment for Children of the City and the BMC Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family to evaluate BMC's 2021 policy which ended automatic Child Protective Services reporting for prenatal substance exposure (https://www.bmc.org/news/new-study-shows-promising-results-boston-medical-centers-revised-clinical-guidelines-mandatory). He is also a co-leader of the Department of Pediatrics' Health Equity Rounds conference series (https://www.bmc.org/health-equity-rounds).

Rohan broadly strives to advance health equity for and with marginalized populations, with a particular focus on children, young adults, and families involved in the child welfare, juvenile justice, and adult criminal-legal systems. His research has sought to improve access to care and health outcomes for stigmatized conditions (substance use disorders, serious mental illness, and infectious diseases); redress the (mis)use of race in clinical algorithms; and examine intersections of health and carceral systems. His work has been published in journals including NEJM, Health Affairs, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and JGIM; has been covered in outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and STAT; and has had tangible policy impacts, including being referenced in federal regulations on the use of race in clinical algorithms, changing hospital guidelines on the care of incarcerated patients, and influencing state legislation to end mandatory child welfare reporting for prenatal substance exposure.

Rohan's prior public service experience includes work with two state Medicaid programs on re-entry coverage for incarcerated youth & adults. He advised the NYC Health Department’s Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms as lead author of CERCA’s inaugural report and as a health services research consultant assisting with program evaluation design. He has been invited to the NASEM twice to testify on organizational and regulatory interventions to redress the harms of race-based clinical algorithms. Locally, he serves on the scientific advisory council for the Transformational Prison Project, a restorative justice-focused organization founded and led by formerly incarcerated individuals.