Simar Bajaj studies Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford (as a Marshall Scholar) and recently graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. He is interested in global healthcare delivery and forging a more equitable medical system. His research spans oncological disparities to health policy transformation with first-author work in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature Medicine, British Medical Journal, and Annals of Internal Medicine.Simar is also an award-winning journalist, writing for The Atlantic, Washington Post, Guardian, TIME, National Geographic, and NPR among others. As a writer, he has won the Foreign Press Association's Science Story of the Year and the $40,000 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Furthermore, he has been recognized as 40 Under 40 in Cancer, 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health, and Top 50 in Digital Health — as the youngest awardee in all of these organizations’ histories. With 80+ manuscripts in peer-reviewed medical journals and 70+ in the popular press, Simar believes writing is a tool for civic engagement.Finally, Simar hosted That Medic Podcast, led the World Pre-Health Conference for 2500+ students from 100+ countries, interned with the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chaired the Health Policy Program at the Kennedy School Institute of Politics, and served as Washington DC reporter for STAT, covering stigmatized diseases and health policy.