Karabi Acharya is a leading global public health practitioner with a strong interest in the health impacts of social isolation and loneliness. She’s spent over 25 years weaving together her expertise in anthropology, public health, adult learning and systems thinking to improve health and wellbeing around the world. Dr. Acharya has lived and worked in over 20 countries across Europe, Africa and South Asia with organizations that include the World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Bank, Ford Foundation, USAID. She is currently Senior Director of the Global Ideas for US Solutions portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted to health. She is a founding member of the RWJF Equity Leadership Group which is tasked with building a culture of equity, justice and belonging inside RWJF.
Dr. Acharya has written and spoken extensively on a host of issues relevant to health and wellbeing, including health equity, child health, infectious diseases, immunizations. Throughout her career, she has emphasized the importance not only of listening to marginalized people but shifting power to achieve a better world for all. She is the author of three book chapters, eleven peer-reviewed papers and presentations, and over twenty blog posts. She is the host of the ReImagined in America webinar series at RWJF and recently curated a
series of articles with the Stanford Social Innovation Review focused on the imperative for learning globally to act locally.
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