Nakul Raykar, MD FACS

Nakul P. Raykar, MD, MPH, is a trauma surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, with a focus on the intersection of global health, public health, and surgery. He is currently the fellowship director of the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Co-Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Co-Director of the PGSSC’s WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency, Critical, and Operative Care. He previously served as one of the core writers of The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and one of its Implementation Commissioners. Nakul’s research interests are focused on innovative strategies for blood transfusion in the world’s low-resource settings, including in North America. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the Local Initiative For Emergency Blood (LIFE-Blood) study – a civilian walking blood bank implementation study in Turkana Kenya -- and, in 2023, founded the Blood DESERT Coalition (www.blooddesertcoalition.org), which believes that nobody should die from lack of blood transfusion.

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

09/2020—Present

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Other

09/2020—Present