Sahil Sandhu received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School. Currently, he is a primary care resident at Brigham in Boston. Working at the intersection of clinical medicine, care delivery transformation, and health policy, Sahil is committed to building a stronger and more equitable healthcare system. He completed his self-designed bachelor’s degree in health innovation at Duke University. He studied the use of evidence-based practice to design, implement, and evaluate new health innovations, from artificial intelligence tools to new value-based payment models. While at Duke, he founded a student volunteer program to help patients connect to community resources for their unmet social needs such food insecurity and housing instability.
Sahil went on to complete his master’s in health services research at Newcastle University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar, where he evaluated social prescribing models to integrate health and social services. At Harvard, he received the Fletcher Prize in Population Medicine and was a Foster Scholar at the Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to interning at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Sahil has conducted research with the Fenway Institute, the Massachusetts Institute for Equity-Focused Learning Health System Science, and the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network at UCSF. His scholarly work has resulted in over 40 publications in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Academic Medicine.