Shikha Anand, MD

Dr. Anand has 20 years of experience developing innovations and systems that improve health. Her leadership experience includes public health, research, consumer health technology, and clinical informatics. A practicing physician, Dr. Anand is board-certified in Clinical Informatics from the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics from the American Board of Pediatrics. She has previously led health innovation, equity, quality, and informatics initiatives at Withings (Global Chief Medical Officer), Well (Chief Medical Officer), Aetna/ CVS (Chief Medical Officer, Consumer Health Products), Walmart (National Medical Director), and a series of nonprofits and federally qualified health centers.

She serves as a guest lecturer, startup mentor, and expert-in-residence at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Innovation Lab. As an expert in diversity, equity, and inclusion whose clinical practice serves under-resourced families, she brings a unique perspective on how data and technology can be used to empower and improve the health of diverse populations at scale.

Shikha is a proven leader in scaling new technologies into the health care ecosystem and driving innovation and quality to improve the patient/ consumer experience at community, state, national, and international levels. She has led the public health, equity, and clinical strategy in large and small for-profit and non-profit settings, including the development and launch of products, health metrics, go-to-market and regulatory strategy, and solutions for medical professional and consumer audiences. Her expertise includes clinical research, informatics, quality improvement, health systems, public health, strategic planning, analytics, and data science (including guiding machine learning and artificial intelligence models), organizational development, and health technology. She is passionate about ensuring that the content, products, and solutions created under her purview are accessible, scalable, and relevant to all audiences, regardless of social or health circumstances.