Parsa Erfani – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2021

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School
Harvard Medical School

Undergraduate School
Columbia University

Mentor
Renee Landers, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School and Rappaport Advisory Board Member and Ravi Parikh, Staff Physician and Medical Oncologist, Philadelphia VA Medical Center and former Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Agency
MassHealth

Supervisor
Clara Filice, Associate Medical Director for Payment and Care Delivery Innovation

Description of Fellowship
Parsa worked with MassHealth this summer to design policy reforms that incentivize reduction of health disparities in accountable care organizations. He will be pursuing an internal medicine residency after graduation.