Joneigh Khaldun

Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health

Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP, is a nationally recognized healthcare executive, health policy, and public health expert who currently serves as the Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer for CVS Health. In this role, she advances the company’s data-driven strategy to improve access to services, address social determinants of health, and decrease health disparities. Prior to this, she served as Chief Medical Executive for the state of Michigan, where she oversaw Medicaid, public health, and behavioral health services and was the lead strategist guiding Michigan’s COVID response. In 2021 she was appointed by President Biden to the Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

Dr Khaldun was previously Detroit’s Health Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer for the Baltimore City Health Department. She is a member of several boards and committees, including the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a National Public Health System, the Milbank Memorial Fund Board of Directors, and the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan.

An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Khaldun has received multiple awards, including the George Washington University Monumental Alumni Award, 2020 Crain’s Detroit Newsmaker of the Year; Detroit News 2021 Michiganian of the Year; 2022 USA Today Woman of the Year, and 2023 Fierce Healthcare Most Influential Minority Executives in Healthcare. She is a board-certified practicing emergency medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.