Bio
Dr. Sejal Tyle Hathi is a board-certified physician and nationally recognized public health leader with more than 15 years of experience advancing physical and mental health, women's rights, and public policy in the United States and globally.
She serves as the 4th permanent Director of the Oregon Health Authority, appointed to the cabinet position by Governor Tina Kotek and unanimously confirmed by the Oregon Senate to oversee all health care and public health services, policies, and programs for the State of Oregon. Most recently, she served as New Jersey's deputy health commissioner and state health officer -- a position she held after two years as the Biden White House's Senior Policy Advisor for Public Health, where she led several presidential priorities across mental health, climate and health, public health preparedness, and supply chain policy. She has also held joint faculty appointments as an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Hathi grew up in Fremont, California and received her B.S. with honors from Yale University and her M.D. / M.B.A. from Stanford University, where she studied as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. She completed her clinical training in internal medicine and primary care at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital.