Kamal Menghrajani Email & Phone Number

I serve as the Assistant Director for Cancer Innovation & Public Health at The White House, working with the Biden Cancer Moonshot and Health Outcomes teams at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. I was also a 2023-2024 White House Fellow. Previously, I served as an assistant attending physician on faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering. My clinical expertise is in leukemia and my research interests are in clonal hematopoiesis (changes in the bone marrow that occur with aging), genomics, MPNs, and developing / assessing new therapeutics through investigator-initiated clinical trials and cutting-edge clinical research. I am the recipient of an ASCO Young Investigator Award and an NIH K12 Career Development Award.I have an MS in Biostatistics from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. My coursework focused on developing expertise in biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trial development, and the use and implementation of machine learning / artificial intelligence algorithms in healthcare and medical research. I have prior expertise managing thousands of volunteers and community organizers, working on startups in the global health space, conducting epidemiology field research, and building global health collaborations. I have served oncology patients in international contexts, at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala.My prior experience in medical and health policy journalism includes writing for web and researching stories for the ABC News Health Unit and writing / producing / voicing stories for KQED, San Francisco's affiliate for National Public Radio (NPR).