Dr. Rajaie Batniji, MD, DPhil, is a Gaza-born physician, entrepreneur, and political scientist. He is the founder of healthcare technology companies, and is currently leading a company that is improving access and care for people covered by Medicaid benefits. As an entrepreneur, he has raised several hundred million dollars to develop and scale technology-enabled solutions for improving American healthcare.

Dr. Batniji is a Board Director at UNRWA USA, Refugees International, and the Gaza Student Support Network. Batniji’s research — including research on health in the occupied Palestinian territory — has been published in top international medical journals, including The Lancet, Health Affairs, British Medical Journal, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. His work has also been featured in major media, including the New York Times, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, and STAT, among others.

Batniji was previously clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University. He holds BA and MA degrees in History from Stanford University, an MD from the University of California, San Francisco, and a doctorate in Politics and International Relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.

Dr. Mohammad Subeh is an Emergency Physician and Traumatologist with over a decade of humanitarian work delivering critical, time-sensitive healthcare in low-resource environments. Recently, he served on multiple medical missions to Gaza during the Gaza genocide, establishing field hospitals in Rafah and Deir Al-Balah, and recently returned from a medical mission in southern Lebanon. While there, Dr. Subeh treated thousands of patients and witnessed the systematic decimation of the population and infrastructure and the unprecedented obstruction of humanitarian work and aid delivery on the ground.

Dr. Subeh’s research has been published in over 15 peer-reviewed medical journals and 2 textbooks. He has lectured on topics ranging from the use of point-of-care ultrasound technology in managing life-threatening injuries to the long-term epidemiological impacts of natural and man-made disasters on at-risk populations. He advises multiple health tech companies in Silicon Valley. He holds a BS in Human Biology, MA in Sociology, and MS in Epidemiology from Stanford University. He received his Medical Doctorate from Oregon Health and Science University, completed residency in Emergency Medicine at The University of Chicago, and Ultrasound Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Lisa Blaydes is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the author of State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Middle East Journal, and World Politics.