"Medicine is not exclusively biological." This nuanced statement intrigued me as Dr. Joia Mukherjee spoke of her years in global health during a guest lecture in a recent class I took, Infectious Diseases and Social Injustice.

Beyond being a professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Joia also spends her time as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health––a Boston based international nonprofit and charity dedicated to providing a preferential option for the poor in health care. Although she's extremely busy with her professorship and CMO role, Dr. Joia was quoted in a recent feature as saying she has “a day job, a night job, and a weekend job.” Nothing else is to be expected from someone who is both a Human Rights activist, author, professor, and Chief Medical Officer of an international non-profit.

Aside from her amazing accomplishments, the reason I needed to host Dr. Joia Mukherjee on The Catalyst was to have a nuanced and eye-opening conversation about the intricacies of global health, her passion for social justice and medicine, and to get to the heart of her statement, "medicine is not exclusively biological."

To find out more about Partners in Health, visit their website here.