Harleen Marwah, MD, MS
Harleen Marwah, MD MS, is a Pediatrician, an Editorial Fellow (’24-’25) at the New England Journal of Medicine and recently served as a President Biden-appointed member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She completed her Pediatrics Residency from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in June 2024, where she was awarded the 2024 Nancy Elizabeth Bernhardt Award for efforts to improve the well-being of children in the community. During her time as a pediatric resident, she created and launched the longitudinal Climate Justice & Health Equity curriculum for the residency program, spearheaded the Health Equity Rounds educational series, represented the university-wide delegation at the COP 28 meetings, and served as the Advocacy Chair for the Residency Leadership Committee. Her decade of work in the climate and health space has been featured by The Lancet, NPR, Huffington Post, & the National Academy of Medicine, among others. She was the founding Chair of Medical Students for a Sustainable Future (MS4SF), a community of 700+ medical trainees across 100+ medical schools working to combat the health harms of the climate crisis. In recognition of this work, she was named a 2021 Grist 50 Fixer and earned the 2020 Health Care Without Harm Emerging Physician Leader Award. She has advocated for health and intergenerational equity stakeholders at the United Nations COP20, COP21, and COP 28.
She earned her M.D. from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and her M.S. in Global Medicine and B.S. in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from the University of Southern California.