Javad Hasmi, M.D.

Dr. Javad T. Hashmi is Director of Research and Strategic Communications at MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council), PhD candidate in the Study of Religion at Harvard University, and a practicing emergency physician. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Hashmi earned bachelors and masters degrees in Arabic & Islamic Studies from UC Berkeley and Harvard, respectively.

He was formerly a Fellow of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace. His dissertation work focuses on jihad in the Quran and in the lifetime of the historical Muhammad.