2024 Honoree
Aleef Rahman, MD, MPH, MBA, MS’09, ’11
BS Biochemistry, MS Biomedical Sciences, MPH Public Health, MBA Business AdministrationPublic Health Physician, Medical Consultant, New York State Department of Health, CDC National Foundation
- Led the development of New York State’s COVID-19 clinical guidelines and policies
in response to changing FDA regulations and CDC recommendations.
- Works to improve vaccination equity, confidence, accessibility and availability, particularly
among vulnerable populations such as refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and Tribal
Nations.
- Leads the Regional Immunization and Vaccine Preventable Disease Clinical Roundtable
consisting of nine northeastern state departments of health.
- Current Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Fellow at the National Institute
of Health's AIM-AHEAD Consortium & National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
- Supported Phase 2/3 lung cancer clinical trials as an Oncology Drug Development Physician
Fellow at Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals & Rutgers EMSOP-RPIF.