Pablo da Silva, MD, MPH

Pablo da Silva, MD, MPH most recently completed a palliative care fellowship with the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship, where he served as a class representative for the fellows and completed both the Health Equity Track and the Global Palliative Educational Collaborative Track. He received the MGH Global Health Community Engagement Award to travel to Chile, where he collaborated with local palliative care providers and delivered a department-wide presentation in Spanish based on a grand rounds he had originally delivered at Harvard, entitled “Increasing Equitable Access to High Quality Palliative Care for All.” He received his bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Kean University, graduating summa cum laude. He attended medical school at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, where he earned a dual MD/MPH degree with a focus on Global Health Equity. His capstone project investigated the relationship between intimate partner violence and HIV prevalence in Zimbabwean women. During his medical education, he was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and developed a mentorship program for community college students from disadvantaged backgrounds interested in healthcare careers. He completed a Family Medicine Residency at the Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency at Lake Forest where he served as the resident president elect for the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians. Additionally, he was one of four physicians nationally selected for the American Academy of Family Physicians' Health Equity Fellowship. He has presented at local and national conferences on increasing equitable care to vulnerable populations and expanding opportunities in medicine for underserved students. He is interested in improving access to high-quality health services in underresourced communities, both in the US and abroad, through policy and clinical practice.