HEALTH EQUITY IMPACT PROGRAM: Removing barriers to equitable healthcare
Jay Bhatt, D.O., MPH, MPA is a physician executive, internist, geriatrician, and public health innovator. As Executive Director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (DCHS) and the Deloitte Health Equity Institute (DHEI), Dr. Bhatt directs the research, insights, and eminence agenda across the life sciences and health care industry while driving high-impact collaborations to advance health equity. He is a prominent thought leader around the issues of health equity, health care transformation, public health, and innovation. Passionate about patient care, Dr. Bhatt will continue practicing medicine at local community health centers in Chicago and Cook County while serving in his leadership role at Deloitte.Prior to joining Deloitte, Dr. Bhatt was senior vice president and chief medical officer at the American Hospital Association. While there, in addition to his enterprise role, he served as president of the Health Research and Educational Trust and helped lead the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity. His early work in health care involved practicing primary care at Erie Family Health Center, sitting on faculty at Northwestern Medicine, acting as chief health officer of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, and serving as managing deputy commissioner and chief innovation officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health.Dr. Bhatt earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago; Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman and Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Policy Fellow. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.Dr. Bhatt's work has earned the attention of top media outlets seeking his expertise. He is a recipient of the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Award, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow.
Jay Bhatt, D.O., MPH, MPA is a physician executive, internist, geriatrician, and public health innovator. As Executive Director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (DCHS) and the Deloitte Health Equity Institute (DHEI), Dr. Bhatt directs the research, insights, and eminence agenda across the life sciences and health care industry while driving high-impact collaborations to advance health equity. He is a prominent thought leader around the issues of health equity, health care transformation, public health, and innovation. Passionate about patient care, Dr. Bhatt will continue practicing medicine at local community health centers in Chicago and Cook County while serving in his leadership role at Deloitte.Prior to joining Deloitte, Dr. Bhatt was senior vice president and chief medical officer at the American Hospital Association. While there, in addition to his enterprise role, he served as president of the Health Research and Educational Trust and helped lead the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity. His early work in health care involved practicing primary care at Erie Family Health Center, sitting on faculty at Northwestern Medicine, acting as chief health officer of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, and serving as managing deputy commissioner and chief innovation officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health.Dr. Bhatt earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago; Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman and Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Policy Fellow. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.Dr. Bhatt's work has earned the attention of top media outlets seeking his expertise. He is a recipient of the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Award, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow.
Dr. Shantanu Nundy, chief medical officer of Accolade, oversees the company’s clinical strategy and solutions to improve health outcomes for individuals and families, as well as the experience and relationships they have with their providers. Dr. Nundy is also a practicing primary care physician at Mary’s Center, a federally qualified health center serving a large, immigrant community in Washington, D.C. Dr. Nundy is a technologist with expertise in combining medicine and innovation with deep knowledge of the healthcare industry and global health policy.In 2021, Dr. Nundy published his second book, Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent it. He has authored and been cited in the Harvard Business Review, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal on issues including how employers can navigate the pandemic to provide better healthcare, the challenges and potential solutions for distributing Covid antiviral pills in an inequitable healthcare system and how consumers can take a greater role in their own healthcare.Prior to joining Accolade, Dr. Nundy served as senior technology advisor in the World Bank Group’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice. In this role, he accelerated adoption of health innovation and technology across the Bank’s $15 billion healthcare portfolio in low- and middle-income countries.Dr. Nundy’s work has been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation and World Health Organization. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Psychology Today, Rolling Stone, Wired and others. He is also the author of Stay Healthy At Every Age, a Wall Street Journal top five book in health and wellness of 2010.He also serves as a lecturer in health policy at the George Washington Milken Institute for Public Health. He is a graduate of MIT (BS), Johns Hopkins (MD), and the University of Chicago (MBA).
Dr. Shantanu Nundy, chief medical officer of Accolade, oversees the company’s clinical strategy and solutions to improve health outcomes for individuals and families, as well as the experience and relationships they have with their providers. Dr. Nundy is also a practicing primary care physician at Mary’s Center, a federally qualified health center serving a large, immigrant community in Washington, D.C. Dr. Nundy is a technologist with expertise in combining medicine and innovation with deep knowledge of the healthcare industry and global health policy.In 2021, Dr. Nundy published his second book, Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent it. He has authored and been cited in the Harvard Business Review, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal on issues including how employers can navigate the pandemic to provide better healthcare, the challenges and potential solutions for distributing Covid antiviral pills in an inequitable healthcare system and how consumers can take a greater role in their own healthcare.Prior to joining Accolade, Dr. Nundy served as senior technology advisor in the World Bank Group’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice. In this role, he accelerated adoption of health innovation and technology across the Bank’s $15 billion healthcare portfolio in low- and middle-income countries.Dr. Nundy’s work has been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation and World Health Organization. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Psychology Today, Rolling Stone, Wired and others. He is also the author of Stay Healthy At Every Age, a Wall Street Journal top five book in health and wellness of 2010.He also serves as a lecturer in health policy at the George Washington Milken Institute for Public Health. He is a graduate of MIT (BS), Johns Hopkins (MD), and the University of Chicago (MBA).