Bio
Dr. Rishi Mediratta, MD, MSc, MA, is a Clinical Associate Professor in Pediatrics, a Pediatric Hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH). He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Public Health and went to medical school at Stanford University. Dr. Mediratta has conducted community-based, pediatrics, and public health research in Ethiopia since 2005. He founded the Ethiopian Orphan Health Foundation to provide community-based health care and education to orphans in Ethiopia. As a British Marshall Scholar, he received an MA in Medical Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies and an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As a pediatrics resident at Stanford, he became passionate about decreasing neonatal mortality through hospital- and community-based education programs. As faculty, he supervises trainees and cares for hospitalized children and integrates his field experience and interdisciplinary background to create newborn and child health programs. He has worked with policymakers at the World Bank, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and Save the Children. At Stanford University, he teaches a course to undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines about the medical and societal implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
