Joneigh Khaldun

President and CEO

Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP is a nationally recognized public health and healthcare expert and practicing emergency medicine physician. She recently served as the inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer for CVS Health, where she led the team that increased quality and availability of demographic data, expanded access to community health workers, and spearheaded several disparity reduction clinical interventions. Prior to this she served as Chief Deputy Director for Health 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 to the nation’s Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

Dr Khaldun previously held roles as 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, Essential Hospitals Institute, 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 obtained her B.S. from the University of Michigan, M.D. from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, M.P.H. in Health Policy from George Washington University, and completed her emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center. 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 and International Women’s Forum.