Moazzum Bajwa, MD, MPH, MSc leads the Inland Empire hub of the California HEAL Program, based at the Riverside University Health System (RUHS/UCR) Family Medicine Residency Program. He is an associate professor of family medicine at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, where he directs the three-year longitudinal integrated clerkship in primary care. He is also president of the Riverside-San Bernardino Chapter of the California Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Bajwa’s commitment to community-oriented primary care is grounded in formative experiences in community health centers in North Carolina and Philadelphia that served working-class and immigrant families. He witnessed the transformative power of community collaboration and accompaniment, guided by family physicians, in promoting the health and brilliance of all people.

He earned degrees in public health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina and from the College of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University. After completing medical school at Ross University on the beautiful island nation of Dominica, Dr. Bajwa completed his residency in family medicine at RUHS/UCR Family Medicine Residency Program.

Dr. Bajwa joined the HEAL team to build innovative pathways for leadership in social medicine across the Inland Empire region of southern California. He believes that through the core pillars of the HEAL curriculum, a coalition of committed leaders can help communities break the cycles of structural violence with solutions rooted in solidarity and shared purpose.