Sameer Khan

Sameer Khan is a first-generation Kashmiri-American student from the charming suburbs of Madison, Mississippi, currently residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College with a joint-degree in the History of Science and Anthropology, with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights. Long fascinated by the reciprocities between human health and sociopolitical forces, he conducted his senior honors thesis research at a psychiatry hospital in Kashmir, exposing the psychosocial wounds patterned by prolonged violence in this militarized region. A medical anthropologist at heart, he is eager to lend his voice to these oft-unspoken interfaces of medicine and society—and the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary predicaments. 

At Harvard, Sameer engaged in service through Indigo Peer-Counseling, leadership through the Harvard Islamic Society and Muslim American Studies Working Group, and research through the Radcliffe Research Partnership Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship. Further, he has contributed to research with the Thomas Jefferson College of Population Health and the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, as well as supported the innovation hub Health Leads in advances toward health equity. 

At Cambridge, Sameer will pursue an MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society as the John Eliot Scholar at Jesus College.