Global Health Residents

Anna Chen Arroyo, MD, MPH

While attending Stanford University as an undergraduate, Anna spent summers living in a squatter community in the Philippines, learning how to help local community women establish business co-operatives and educating children.

After graduation, Anna remained interested in working with immigrant communities and worked as a research and data analyst for a Los Angeles-based non-profit agency dedicated to helping Latino children with cancer and their families navigate the healthcare system.

Anna received her M.D. degree from Stanford where she conducted research with Drs. Paul Wise and Ewen Wang to study pediatric health disparities in emergency care. Anna received a Masters in Public Health degree from University of California at Berkeley, where she worked with a local homeless clinic to establish a quality improvement program for diabetic patients.

As a Global Health resident, Anna will continue to be working with and advocating for the improved health of underserved and marginalized communities in the Bay Area as well as those in resource-limited countries.

Rajaie Batniji, DPhil, MD

Rajaie Batniji is a global health internal resident at Stanford and a Center on Democracy Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) affiliate. His research examines the selection of priority diseases and countries in global health, and he is interested in global health financing and the priority-setting process of international institutions.

His work also examines social determinants of health in the Arab World. At the Freeman Spogli Institute, Rajaie is co-investigator on Global Underdevelopment Action Fund projects explaining U.S. global health financing and political causes of public health crisis.

He received his doctorate in international relations (D.Phil) from Oxford University where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. He also earned an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and M.A. and B.A. (with distinction) degrees in History from Stanford University. Dr. Batniji was previously based at Oxford's Global Economic Governance Program, and he has worked as a consultant to the World Health Organization.

Meghana Gadgil, MD

Bio coming soon...

Alex Sandhu, MD

Alex Sandhu received his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University with a major in economics. He went on to graduate AOA from Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. Alex has gained a strong interest in global health through multiple trips to Latin America.

Before medical school, he spent time working at a government orphanage in Lima, Peru. During medical school, he first participated in and later led medical trips to Jinotega, Nicaragua with the NU-AID organization to provide healthcare to underserved populations. He later went on to spend time working in a primary care clinic in northern Bolivia.

While in Chicago, Alex helped organize a local endocrinology clinic for the underserved, which is a subspecialty clinic for Chicago's largest network of free healthcare clinics. Alex is a global health internal medicine resident at Stanford University. Being a member of the global health track, his specific interests lie in the development of health policy for addressing the growing burden of non-communicable diseases in the developing world.