Prabhjot Singh is director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and chairs the Department of Health System Design and Global Health at Mount Sinai Health System. He’s a special advisor for strategy and design at Peterson Center on Healthcare and advises social enterprises and start-ups that are pioneering new sustainable and scalable-care models. Previously, Singh was a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University and co-chaired the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign. He’s the author of Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise, as well as forthcoming books on last-mile health and how to invest in better health care.
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