Dr. Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP

Dr. Ranit Mishori is a physician leader with over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and human rights. She brings a wealth of expertise in strategic leadership, operational management of highly complex systems, risk management, training, and advocacy.

Dr. Mishori currently leads the Health and Safety Directorate (HSD) at the World Bank Group, where she oversees strategic and operational initiatives, risk management, preparedness activities, and the delivery of integrated health and safety programs and services in more than 140 WBG Country Offices and regional hubs.

Previously, she served as Vice President and Chief Public Health Officer at Georgetown University where she led the university's global strategic and operational response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies.

Pre-pandemic, Dr. Mishori directed the Department of Family Medicine's Global Health Initiatives and led Georgetown’s Practice-Based Research Network, among other roles. She was a member of the health policy team for presidential candidate Joe Biden, and prior to that she contributed to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign where she participated in drafting multiple policy briefs, and co-chaired the women’s, sexual and reproductive health policy sub-committee.

Dr, Mishori brings a social justice and human rights lens to all of her medical pursuits. From an early start covering wars and the plight of refugees for global news organizations, she has been focused on the far-reaching impact of conflict, and ways to relieve the suffering that comes with it. As a physician and advocate, she is widely recognized for her work with forced migrants, torture survivors, asylum seekers and women affected by sexual violence. She was medical director and co-founder of Georgetown’s Asylum Program, an initiative designed to provide medical evaluations to migrants seeking asylum in the US, while also functioning as a teaching opportunity for health professionals of all disciplines and specialties. This work dovetails with her position as Senior Medical Advisor for the Nobel Prize co-laureate organization Physicians for Human Rights, where she is deeply engaged with PHR’s Asylum Program, its COVID response, Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones, among others.

Dr. Mishori’s leadership roles are numerous. A Diplomate and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians – the largest single specialty professional organization in the US - Dr. Mishori has been a deeply engaged leader in initiatives spanning primary care, global health, population and community health. She was appointed to a 4-year term on the AAFP’s Commission on Health of the Public and Science where she helped steer the Academy’s national policies. As chair of the Public Health Issues committee she authored multiple policies and position papers on behalf of the academy. She has represented the AAFP at various national meetings and committees, including at the CDC, ACOG, among others. Locally, she has served 4-consecutive terms on the board of the directors of the DC Academy of Family Physicians, co-chairing the advocacy committee. Dr. Mishori’s expertise and leadership on women’s health have also earned her a spot as co-chair on the DC Department of Health’s Maternal Health Advisory Board.

Dr. Mishori has received multiple awards and has been elected and selected to serve on multiple national and international advisory boards and committees. True to her journalism roots, Dr. Mishori continues to report and write on health and medicine, publishing more than 250 articles in the popular media, including the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Huffington Post. Between 2008 and 2011, she was the medical columnist for Parade Magazine. She frequently represents Georgetown and PHR on TV, radio, print and web-based news outlets.

Her medical education included an MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine and a residency in family medicine, also at Georgetown. She is currently pursuing an MSt/LLM in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.

Sub-specialities:
COVID-19: COVID-19, vaccine equity, covid vaccination, covid testing, covid mitigation to the 'areas of expertise

Human Rights: Conflict-related Gender-based violence; Female Genital Mutilation; Torture; Health and War; Health and Conflict; Migration and Health; Refugees and Health; Asylum seekers and health; detention and health; Human trafficking and health.

Primary Care: family medicine (comprehensive clinical medicine); evidence-based medicine; healthcare workforce; prevention; population-based health; health disparities and inequities; political determinants of health.