Dr. Kamiar Khajavi

Kamiar Khajavi, MD, JD, MPH, is a Senior Director for UHC (Universal Health Coverage) at MSH. In that role, he works with MSH colleagues and external parties on all aspects of health systems financing and policy. In the seven years before joining MSH, Kamiar served at USAID as an advisor in the Bureau for Global Health reporting to the Assistant Administrator. His portfolio included health finance, global health policy, and management, workforce and compliance issues. Before joining USAID, Kamiar worked as a consultant in the Washington DC office of McKinsey & Co. where he served private and public sector clients. In the more distant past, he was an attending physician (internal medicine) at New York Presbyterian Hospital and on the faculty of the Weil Cornell Medical College. He has also worked in financial law and investment banking. Kamiar holds a JD and MPH from Columbia University and an MD from the University of Pennsylvania.