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Dr. Megha Shankar is an internal medicine primary care physician, medical educator, and health services researcher who seeks to promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in medicine. Clinically, she practices primary care at the UCSD 4th and Lewis Internal Medicine Clinic. She leads the women's health quality efforts as the Co-Director of the Population Health Services Organization Wellness/Prevention Committee. Within graduate medical education, she serves as Core Faculty with the UCSD Internal Medicine Residency Program as the Director of the Social Justice and Advocacy Pathway and Key Faculty within the Primary Care Track. Within undergraduate medical education, she teaches a seminar for the Primary Care Clerkship and directs the School of Medicine elective MED 236: Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Health. Her grant-funded research seeks to promote trauma-informed care, reproductive justice, and immigrant/refugee health. Her work is focused on trauma and resilience inquiry in family planning, refugee, immigrant, and migrant health curriculum development and evaluation, promoting HPV vaccination in East African families, intimate partner violence screening, addressing female genital cutting, teaching reproductive justice, Veteran postpartum health equity, anti-racism communication, and social justice curricula.