Mohammad Khorgamphar

Mohammad Khorgamphar
Mohammad Khorgamphar

Mohammad Khorgamphar

Health Equity Challenge 2023 Finalist

PROJECT: A water quality improvement program to prevent and reduce the rate of related disease among people from lower socioeconomic statuses who are more at risk.

 

Mohammad Khorgamphar is an MPH student in the Environmental Health Sciences and Policy program at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is also currently an employee at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, and his research interests include mental health, access to care, quality of health care delivery, and health disparities.

As a future physician and public health professional, Khorgamphar believes that practicing medicine goes beyond merely hospitals and clinics: Physicians and health care professionals are obligated to bring healing, comfort, and hope to the entire community. In his free time, he enjoys teaching, hiking, traveling, and reading.

Khorgamphar completed his undergraduate degree in Psychological Sciences at the University of California Irvine.

As an immigrant and first-generation graduate student, I’ve always been fascinated by health care disparities and access to health care. The high rate of health care disparities and lack of access to health care among veterans and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, despite all awareness and support, reveals the poor distribution of quality health services in America. I’m interested in studying and addressing the effects of aluminum and other metal contamination in the water supply among housing-insecure populations. To secure a healthy, equal, and safe world for future generations, I aim to give others the same chances I received when I came to America.

Mohammad Khorgamphar