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About

Anish P. Mahajan, MD, MPH

Email: anishmahajan@mednet.ucla.edu

Anish P. Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In June 2009, President Obama appointed him as a White House Fellow. He served one year as special assistant to Director Peter Orszag at the Office of Management & Budget. In addition to U.S. health reform, Dr. Mahajan applied his expertise on projects including defining priorities for the President's Global Health Initiative implementing Recovery Act programs promoting electronic health records in doctor's offices, developing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and serving as the Office of Mnangament and Budget's lead on the new Federal Workforce Wellness Initiative. Prior to his work in the White House, Anish was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA, where he led collaborations between academic, government, and relevant stakeholder organizations on an array of health policy issues. His work has addressed health care challenges in the U.S., India, and South Africa, and he has previously served as a consultant to RAND Corporation.

Most recently, he led a quasi-experimental study of the effectiveness and patient acceptability of opt-out versus opt-in HIV screening in two Los Angeles community health centers. Dedicated to public service, he has also served as a publicly elected council member on a City of Los Angeles neighborhood council. Dr. Mahajan received a BA in Public Policy and MD from Brown University. He also earned an MPH in International Health from Harvard School of Public Health and MS in Health Services from UCLA.