Simar Bajaj is a journalist, medical student, and researcher focused on how stigma, health policy, and artificial intelligence shape patients' lives.

Simar is currently a medical student and a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University. He studied Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and studied Chemistry and History of Science at Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

 

An award-winning journalist and former New York Times reporter, Simar's work has appeared in NPR, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Washington Post, and National Geographic.

 

His research has spanned cancer disparities to health policy transformation with first-author work in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, BMJ, and Annals of Internal Medicine.

 

In addition to being named Forbes 30 Under 30, he has won the Foreign Press Association's Science Story of the Year and was named the top early-career journalist by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.