Nakul P. Raykar, MD, MPH, is a trauma surgeon with a focus on the intersection of global health, public health, and surgery. He is currently the fellowship director of the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and affiliate faculty at the Center of Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. While he was completing his general surgery training at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he obtained his Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellowship at the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. During this time, he also served as one of the core writers and Implementation Commissioner for The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He then completed a trauma, acute care, and global health surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2020. His research interests are focused on novel strategies for blood transfusion, hemorrhage control techniques, and trauma systems in low-resource settings.