Pathways to Public Service with Arianna Kahn '18

Please join us in welcoming Harvard College 2018 Alumni, Arianna Kahn, back to campus! 

Arianna will speak about her experience as a founding team member of Partners In Health United States (PIH-US), the U.S. arm of the global health and social justice organization Partners In Health, in an off-the-record career conversation over dinner!

About Arianna Kahn
Arianna Kahn is a founding team member of Partners In Health United States (PIH-US), the U.S. arm of the global health and social justice organization Partners In Health. PIH-US envisions a U.S. future in which health is a human right and not a privilege, and since 2020 has worked with local health departments, health providers, elected officials, and community leaders to build strong, community-led public health systems that ensure everyone can exercise their right to health.

Arianna joined PIH-US in 2020 to support emergency COVID-19 response, accompanying the Newark Department of Health to build and strengthen public infrastructure, with a focus on social safety net services and vaccine delivery. Now, as Senior Manager of Strategy and Systems, she works in a national, chief-of-staff-like role alongside executive leadership on strategic planning, organizational development, partner stewardship, communications, and cross-functional projects—including leading a strategy project with global colleagues to define PIH’s approach to accompanying government partners across the world.

She graduated from Harvard College in 2018, with a concentration in History of Science, a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy, and a citation in Modern Standard Arabic. After graduation, she was a Princeton in Asia Teaching Fellow in rural Northern Thailand. At Harvard, Arianna was involved in Mather HoCo, the iLab, Harvard College in Asia Program, Consent Advocates & Relationship Educators (CARE), and Y2Y Harvard Square.