PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

FELLOWS' BIOS: 2000-2001

PATRIK JOHANSSON, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, D.C.

Patrik Johansson is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Johansson has dedicated his career towards working in the intersection of clinical medicine, health policy, and research in communities experiencing health disparities. An internist by training, he completed his residency in primary care at the Cambridge Hospital, and received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, where also completed the Commonwealth Fund Harvard Medical University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy in 2001. After finishing his MPH he became an instructor of social medicine at the Harvard Medical School. During this time completed a health disparities internship at the Federal Office of Minority Health, the Kerr White Visiting Scholars Program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and the Native Investigators Program through the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Dr. Johansson received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1997, and completed a primary care/internal medicine residency at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, MA, in June 2000. He received an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2001 while completing the CFHU Fellowship.

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