My name is Joshua Budhu and I am neuro-oncologist and health equity advocate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I entered the medical field after the death of my brother in police custody from a preventable medical condition. His death exposed me to the ugly reality of health care disparities and how the social determinants of health affect our lives. My goal is to eliminate health disparities and work towards a more equitable healthcare system. 

I treat patients with Central Nervous System (CNS) tumors, including glioblastomas, gliomas, CNS lymphomas, meningiomas, and brain metastases. I trained in neuro-oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and Harvard Medical School (HMS). Prior to fellowship, I completed my internal medicine internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and residency at the Harvard BWH-MGH neurology program, where I served as a Chief Resident. During my time at Harvard I was also selected as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Minority Policy and obtained my MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

I am the editor for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) section of the Neurology journal. I am also a Public Voices Fellow at the OpEd Project through AcademyHealth.