Sriram Shamasunder graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. He obtained his diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in 2013. Throughout his career, he has spent several months out of every year in underserved settings around the world including south Los Angeles, rural Liberia, Haiti, Burundi, and rural India.

Mr. Sri is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and co-founder and faculty director of the HEAL Initiative, a health workforce strengthening fellowship working in Navajo Nation and 7 countries around the world. HEAL currently has had over 100 fellows over the last three years, half of whom are Native American and from low and middle income countries (LMIC).

He was awarded the Young Physician of the Year in 2010, by the Northern California Chapter of the American College of Physicians and was named an Asia21 fellow by the Asia Foundation in 2012, a Fulbright-Nehru scholar to India in 2012, and a Draper Richards Kaplan entrepreneur in 2016.

Mr. Sri is a published poet and studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People while at UC Berkeley. He is interested in a solidarity that draws untold stories to the surface as well as health equity. In 2016, he gave a Berkeley TedX talk entitled “Whose Suffering Matters Less, and Why”?