Karen DeSalvo is chief health officer at Google, where she leads the company’s health strategy and the team that provides health expertise to guide Google in creating exceptional health products, services, discoveries and research to help everyone live a healthy life. DeSalvo previously was national coordinator for health information technology and assistant secretary for health (acting) in the Obama Administration and was New Orleans health commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. Earlier, she was vice dean for community affairs and health policy at Tulane School of Medicine, where she was a practicing internal medicine physician, educator, researcher and leader. DeSalvo is co-founder of the National Alliance to Impact the Social Determinants of Health and serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine. She is on the board of directors of Welltower and on the WHO Commission on Social Connection.
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