Operationalist Specialist & Community Health Worker
Rishit Yokananth serves as an Operationalist Specialist and Community Health Worker at the Black Men’s Health Clinic, where he works directly with patients to provide social determinants of health referrals, post-visit feedback collection, and care navigation while strengthening the clinic’s operational and data infrastructure.
He has helped build BMHC’s referral and partnership database, geospatial mapping tools, analyzed patient engagement trends, and contributed to the clinic’s formal business plan. Rishit played a central role in BMHC’s Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation-funded Manor Health initiative in partnership with Harvard Law School, authoring three comprehensive health reports that were later cited in the City of Austin’s 2025 Community Health Assessment. He was also a major contributing author to Care You Can Trust, a peer-reviewed publication highlighting BMHC’s community-centered model as a national framework for advancing health equity.
Beyond BMHC, he conducts research at Dell Medical School on alcohol use disorder and HIV prevention, co-founded an AI-powered medical device startup, and leads Let’s Crush Medical Debt at UT Austin, helping eliminate over $1.5 million in medical debt across Texas. Rishit’s work sits at the intersection of biotechnology, health equity, and systems-level innovation. He aims to reshape how underserved populations receive care by building smarter, fairer, and more sustainable health systems from the ground up.
