Atul Gawande
Surgeon, writer and public health researcher
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon and writer who also works as a public health researcher. He wrote Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto.
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American Born 1965 in Brooklyn, United States
About Atul Gawande
Gawande was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1965. His surgical work, in general and endocrine surgery, is based at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and he is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1998. Within public health, he was chairman of Ariadne Labs, a joint center focused on innovation in health systems, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit aimed at cutting surgical deaths around the world. He was named CEO of the healthcare venture Haven in 2018 and stepped down from that role in 2020. He later served at the United States Agency for International Development, from January 2022 to January 2025. His books include Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto. He has won a MacArthur Fellowship and two National Magazine Awards.