Rajaie Batniji

Rajaie Batniji, MD, PhD, is a physician and entrepreneur passionate about improving care delivery. As co-founder and CEO at Waymark, Dr. Batniji leads a team that is catalyzing improvement in access and outcomes for people with Medicaid benefits through technology-enabled community care. Waymark partners with leading Medicaid health plans, major health systems, and federally qualified health centers to extend care beyond the clinic with a new local care delivery workforce powered by technology to deliver interventions proven to improve outcomes in a value-enabled care model. 

Dr. Batniji is a resident physician in internal medicine at Stanford and a CDDRL affiliate. His research examines the selection of priority diseases and countries in global health, and he is interested in global health financing and the priority-setting process of international institutions. His work has also examined social determinants of health in the Middle East. At FSI, Dr. Batniji is co-investigator on Global Underdevelopment Action Fund projects explaining U.S. global health financing and political causes of public health crisis. 

Dr. Batniji received his doctorate in international relations (D.Phil) from Oxford University where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. He also earned a M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and M.A. and B.A. (with distinction) degrees in History from Stanford University. Dr. Batniji was previously based at Oxford’s Global Economic Governance Program, and he has worked as a consultant to the World Health Organization.