As a family physician and sociologist, I work to achieve health equity through clinical care, scholarship, and solidarity-based change efforts. I’m an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania and direct the Health and Political Economy Project, a field catalyst initiative building a more just and inclusive economy that enables health and dignity.

My projects investigate economic systems that shape health for structurally marginalized patients and build strategies for health justice. I earned my doctorate in sociology from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge scholar. My thesis centered on the political economy of finance capitalism, drug pricing, and access to medicines, explored through the case study of curative hepatitis C treatments. This research is the subject of my book published by University of California Press (2023) titled Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines.

My family roots - I’m the grandson of a physician and a village health worker from rural West Bengal, India - inspired my path to becoming a doctor. Trained in family medicine, my clinical interests include inpatient hospital medicine, pre- and perinatal care, and addiction medicine. I currently care for patients in primary and hospital care settings alongside my post-doctoral work. I earned my medical degree from Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine as a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow. I completed my residency training at Boston University-Boston Medical Center, where I took care of my primary care patients at Codman Square Health Center, a community health center in Dorchester, Boston. I subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship as a Veterans Affairs Scholar in the National Clinician Scholar Program at Yale University.

Previously, I co-founded and served as Executive Director of GlobeMed, a network of students on university campuses partnered with communities around the world to tackle poverty and health inequity. This formative work taught me about the power of solidarity-based efforts in local and global communities. Additionally, my experience as a medical fellow with the Fellowships at Auschwitz in the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) grounds me in the value of historical reflection and ethical praxis in clinical care and leadership. I enjoy poetry and narrative medicine, and I wrote a children’s book, Sonali, with South African artist Frank Lunar.

I live with my wife Maya, daughter Talia, and our cat Zaz in Philadelphia.

with my maternal grandfather (Dadu), a rural family doctor, in West Bengal, India (2010)