Gunisha Kaur

Dr. Gunisha Kaur is a practicing physician, medical anthropologist, and scientist with two decades of experience and fieldwork in human rights. Her career as a physician-scientist has brought clinical care and scholarly depth to some of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises.

Dr. Kaur’s research has been supported by several funders including the National Institutes of Health, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, and the National Academy of Medicine. Her academic writing on forcibly displaced populations has been published by the highest impact medical journals, and she has translated that expertise for public audiences through TIME, CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, PBS, and NPR, amongst others. Dr. Kaur’s contributions to medicine, science, and human rights have been recognized by the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Kaur completed her B.S. at Cornell University, M.D. at Weill Cornell Medical College, and anesthesiology residency at Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital. She earned a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology from Harvard University.​