Rishi Manchanda is a primary care doctor in south central Los Angeles. He is an internist, pediatrician, HIV specialist and member of the National Health Service Corps. As the Director of Social Medicine and Health Equity at St. John's Well Child and Family Center, a community health center, Dr. Manchanda coordinates the clinic's work in addressing the upstream determinants of health and advancing a human rights approach to health. He is an architect of the South Los Angeles Declaration of Health and Human Rights and works with a local grassroots network of health clinics, affordable housing developers, health promoters and community organizers.

Dr. Manchanda serves on the Board of Directors of the National Physicians Alliance and is the founder of the Rx Vote Campaign, a nationwide nonpartisan effort to promote civic engagement in health care. Last fall, the Rx Vote coalition registered over 25,000 voters in clinics and doctor's offices. He is an active member of Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors for America (formerly known as Doctors for Obama). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

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