Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem

Jamaji C. Nwanaji-Enwerem, is a Health Equity Presidential Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty member at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice. He also serves as the executive director of Elnd, a community environmental education/improvement organization.

Jamaji graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian from Morehouse College. He earned his PhD in the Harvard University Biological Sciences in Public Health program, his Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in environmental health sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and served as chief resident.

Jamaji has served as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, the White House Office of Public Engagement Roundtables on Clinical Innovation and Health Equity, the World Health Organization technical advisory group for the occupational burden of disease estimation, and the International Society of Exposure Science Board of Directors. He is the recipient of numerous honors including being named a National Minority Quality Forum 2021 40 Under 40 Leader in Health, a Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum fellow, a Paul & Daisy Soros New American fellow, and an Agents of Change in Environmental Justice fellow. He has authored several peer-reviewed publications and given many domestic/international lectures on his research, which leverages molecular biomarkers to better understand how environmental exposures impact human aging and health, particularly for the underserved. His work further emphasizes the need for public policy solutions aimed at fostering greater health equity and environmental justice.