Dr. Altaf Saadi is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Associate Director of the MGH Asylum Clinic. Her federally funded research focuses on advancing health equity within neurology and health care more broadly by targeting social and structural determinants of health, with a focus on addressing the needs of immigrants and forcibly displaced persons, both within the community and in immigration prisons. Her research considers trauma at multiple levels, including physical-based injury like brain injury, psychological injury, neighborhood-level trauma, and institutional violence. She serves as a medical expert for the Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network and has served as a medical expert with other civil rights and human rights organizations like the ACLU, National Immigrant Justice Center, Human Rights First, and Disability Rights California. She was named a 2021 National Minority Quality Forum “40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health” and received the 2023 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility, a national award for health justice leadership. Dr. Saadi completed her undergraduate studies at Yale College, medical degree at Harvard Medical School, neurology residency at the Harvard Mass General Brigham MGH-BWH Residency program, and a post-doctoral health services research fellowship with the National Clinician Scholars Program at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she also received a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management.