Alister Martin, MD, MPP

Dr. Martin is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School, a senior fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change, and a practicing emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also serves as the chief executive officer of A Healthier Democracy, a nonprofit healthcare organizing incubator that leverages healthcare workers and settings to develop programs serving vulnerable patients.

Dr. Martin graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University, where he was a Division I tennis player. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School as a Presidential Scholar and obtained a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School as a fellow in the Center for Public Leadership. ​During his training, he served as chief resident at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency.