Keshav is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA student at Wharton. Prior to that he was a Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow at the National Institutes of Health. As a Mitchell Scholar, he studied Immunology and Global Health at Maynooth University. Prior to that, he majored in Biology and Economics at Williams College. Understanding that socioeconomic inequality is one of the greatest public health concerns in the United States, he has conducted research on ailments that disproportionally affects the world’s poor. Growing up in Northern California, he co-authored his first published clinical paper at the age of 16 on the automated detection of congenital heart defects in newborns. His senior biology thesis investigated the mechanisms of asthma, which largely affects impoverished children. He has also conducted health economics research with Harvard Medical School to assess the quality and effectiveness of federally funded clinical trials. Keshav worked as a peer mentor with a local organization to provide drama therapy to adolescent survivors of trauma.