Joneigh S. 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 strategy, programs and policy to achieve health equity across all CVS Health lines of business. Prior to this, she served as Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan and Chief Deputy Director for Health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, where she oversaw public health, Medicaid, behavioral health, and aging services. She was the lead strategist guiding Michigan’s COVID-19 response and in 2021 was appointed by President Biden to the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Khaldun is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan and serves on the Board of Directors of the Milbank Memorial Fund. She is also an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine and currently practices emergency medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Khaldun obtained her BS from the University of Michigan, MD from the University of Pennsylvania, MPH in Health Policy from George Washington University, and completed her emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY.
