Bilal Nadeem

Bilal Nadeem, from Brooklyn, New York, is pursuing a PhD in anthropology at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and an MD at Yale School of Medicine. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in human developmental and regenerative biology and from the University of Cambridge with a master’s degree in health, medicine, and society. Bilal aspires to create durable bridges of trust between the field of medicine and communities of faith. He has conducted ethnographic and public health research in Brazil, China, and the United Kingdom, and has helped create needs-assessment toolkits for medical schools in regions of armed conflict. Bilal was a medical humanities fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute, a research partner at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a Measey Surgical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He was awarded the Lt. Charles H. Fiske III Scholarship. His research interests include violence, historical consciousness, and mental illness.