Karan Parikh
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Department/Institute Affiliation(s)
Center for Humanitarian Health
Dr. Karan Parikh is a physician and epidemiologist with over five years of experience in global health implementation and operational research.
He began his career in humanitarian health as a medical doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières in 2019. Since then, he has worked with PATH, the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, the International Vaccine Access Center, and multiple local NGOs. Currently, he works as an Epidemiologist with MSF in Northwest Syria and Jordan.
Dr. Parikh specializes in implementing, monitoring, and evaluating people-centered interventions in conflict-affected settings, particularly focusing on disease surveillance, nutrition, and childhood immunization. He also has a keen interest in using geographic information systems to add a geospatial perspective to this work.
He earned his Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2023 and his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in 2018.
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