A Million Dollar Prize For UNC alum Raj Panjabi, A Doctor Who Goes The Extra Mile

Posted Dec 5, 2016
Dr. Raj Panjabi is a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the founder of Last Mile Health, which trains people from the community to provide health care in isolated parts of Liberia — a country where doctors are in short supply and some 1.2 million people live in rural areas far from any health clinic. (NPR)

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