Muhammad Qadir is a second-year Administrative Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Muhammad is originally from Memphis TN, where he attended the University of Memphis and received his bachelor’s in health services administration. He worked in different areas of healthcare from clinical spaces to partnering with security during the COVID pandemic as well as being a part of a medical group. While working as a Referral Specialist he witnessed the barriers that many patients face in the healthcare system. This pushed him to pursue a master’s degree in health services administration at the University of Michigan.
During his time at Michigan, he held a variety of roles such as the President/Founder of Muslim Students in Public Health, a Committee Member for the Michigan Healthcare Executive Student Association (MHESA), and a Finance Committee Member of the Health Policy Student Association. He is extremely passionate about community engagement and population health within healthcare systems. He was successfully able to align his passion with a summer internship at the Dearborn Department of Public Health (DPH) where he helped lead a team that conducted research on the cause of flooding within the city and constructed a short and long-term urban development plan for the city to mitigate flooding and water runoff.