Rahul Vanjani, MD is a primary care physician, addiction medicine specialist, and clinician-entrepreneur whose work sits at the intersection of healthcare delivery, social policy, and technology.
Rahul is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. From 2023–2025, he served as a Macy Faculty Scholar, where his academic and educational work focused on integrating social care into clinical environments through interprofessional models that bring together clinicians, community health workers, and social service partners.
Clinically and programmatically, Rahul has spent his career caring for individuals facing structural and social adversity. Since 2022, he has served as Medical Director at Amos House, a nonprofit organization providing integrated social, behavioral, and medical services to individuals experiencing homelessness. From 2017–2022, he practiced at the Rhode Island Hospital Center for Primary Care, the academic residency clinic of Brown University’s Internal Medicine Residency Program, where he worked in the Transitions Clinic and Recovery Clinic. In partnership with community health workers and peer recovery specialists, he provided longitudinal primary care and wraparound services to patients with histories of incarceration and substance use. Earlier in his career, Rahul practiced primary care medicine within the California Department of Corrections, including at San Quentin State Prison.
Rahul’s research, teaching, and advocacy examine structural violence and health, with particular attention to the intersection of the medical and carceral systems; the evolving roles of community health workers within healthcare delivery; and the need for health systems to move beyond “screen and refer” toward direct, accountable intervention on social determinants of health. Grounded in this work, Rahul co-founded ITO Health, a public benefit corporation building technology that enables frontline teams to identify social needs, determine public benefit eligibility, and take concrete action within clinical and community-based workflows.
