Rebecca Friedman

Rahul Nayak was a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School during his fellowship year. As part of the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, his research interests are in pharmaceutical policy, physician prescribing habits, and access to health care. He attended Duke University, where he studied biomedical engineering and economics. He then completed a two-year fellowship at the NIH Department of Bioethics. His research has led to first-author publications in JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and Bioethics. He is currently a resident in the internal medicine residency program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Rahul was a Student Fellow during the 2018-2019 academic year, and completed a project entitled “Public Support for Late-Stage New Drug Discovery,” which examines the role of public-sector research on new drug discovery.