Dr. Pracha Peter Eamranond has spent his career dedicated to furthering the health of underprivileged populations. Dr. Eamranond has taught the Practice of Medicine and Social Medicine courses at Harvard Medical School for two decades. He has focused on mass incarceration since its addition to the curriculum several years ago and currently serves as Chief Medical Officer within the New Hampshire Department of Corrections under Wexford Health, improving the standard of quality care for incarcerated populations. He is spearheading various initiatives to improve prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder, mental illness, cardiovascular risk, and infectious diseases including hepatitis C among patients in prisons and transitional housing units.
He previously served as chief medical officer at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center serving the poorest neighborhood within Connecticut. He led initiatives which earned the institution top awards in patient experience, quality, safety, and efficiency. 
In his previous leadership role as senior vice president of population health and chief medical officer at Lawrence General within the Merrimack Health Network, Dr. Eamranond worked for several years to improve the experience of the poorest population in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was responsible for developing interventions to provide patient-centered, evidence-based care as patients transition across the healthcare continuum. As the primary leader for the Division of Population Health and as the principal physician leader for the organization managing hundreds of providers, he was primarily responsible for spearheading initiatives aimed at improving population health across the Merrimack Valley community.  
He also has developed the neonatal abstinence syndrome program to help mothers and their babies adjusting to opioid addiction, leading to improved quality and decreased costs, earning national attention through TIME magazine.
Along with his population health work, the focus of his research has been in health disparities for immigrant populations. He has  clinical experience caring for immigrant patients as a primary care and hospitalist physician at Mass General Brigham. In addition to his management, quality improvement and research experience, he has focused on medical education.  
Dr. Eamranond has earned numerous awards from all of the institutions where he trained and has served as a U.S. Fulbright scholar.  He has worked very closely with Harvard medical students, not only teaching them to be outstanding physicians, but also helping them develop career goals.  As a whole, all his efforts are focused on improving the health of disadvantaged populations, with a particular emphasis on incarcerated populations with a high burden of substance abuse and complex medical/mental health illness.