SOUTH HADLEY – A champion of providing health care to poor people throughout the world will address May graduates at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley.
The school announced Monday that Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer for Partners In Health, will speak at the college’s 179th commencement May 15.
In a statement relayed by the college, Mukherjee called her invitation “a wonderful chance to impart and share my values to the graduating class as they embark on their life. I take the value of social justice and siding with the most vulnerable quite seriously — these are values we have at Partners In Health and ones that are broadly respected at Mount Holyoke.”
Along with leading Partners in Health, Mukherjee consults for the World Health Organization.
The commencement begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Gettell Amphitheater.
Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School.
She holds honorary degrees from the University of Rhode Island and Ripon College.
She trained in infectious disease, internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Mukherjee is a 1992 graduate of the medical school at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.