Behzad Mohit is a multi-faceted physician and author of books, articles, and essays in cell biology, biochemistry, health care economics, poetry, music, and evolution. He is a graduate of the State University of New York medical school with eleven years of postgraduate studies in universities and research institutes including Mallory Institute of Pathology (Harvard, Boston University, Tufts), Brandeis Graduate Department of Biochemistry, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. His original research at Brandeis, NIH, and the UCSF biochemistry department has been published in prestigious journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, British Journal of Bacteriology and others. Numerous scientists have quoted his work in immunology, bacteriology, and other fields.
At present, he continues pro bono work, as well as writing on diverse subjects. Recently, he has spearheaded an innovative website to bring people together to share ideas (earthpost.org). This is a participatory site that makes it possible for people to post and share their scientific and artistic ideas, contributing a better world. It is the author’s intuition that we are at the tipping point of a transformation from an individualistic, competitive society to an altruistic, cooperative, global community.
His books on healthcare, Universal Health Care System for the United States of America: A Disruptive Innovation, and Health and the Economy: A New One-Step Solution, propose a nonprofit universal health care system, an important example of how we can shape our future cooperative community.
