Joneigh S. Khaldun, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E.P., is a nationally recognized healthcare executive, practicing emergency medicine physician, 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. Joneigh has unique experience leading teams in government, healthcare and corporate settings to address complex challenges and meet the needs of multiple stakeholders, shareholders, clients, customers and communities. She is uniquely adept at strategic design and implementation of new programs and policies and building and leading teams through times of change and crisis. She is a frequently sought-after speaker and thought leader who has appeared on outlets such as Meet the Press, MSNBC, CNN, as well as testified in Congress. The top doctor leading Michigan’s COVID response, she is credited with the state’s early identification of and actions to decrease disparities and in 2021 was appointed by President Biden to the national COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.
Dr. Khaldun has spearheaded the design and implementation of several system-changing projects at the intersection of public health and clinical medicine. She aligned multiple academic, hospital, and public health stakeholders in an effort that in 2019 resulted in Detroit having the lowest infant mortality rate in history. She spearheaded Michigan’s proactive COVID-19 policies, testing and vaccination efforts and led the state’s opioid epidemic response that resulted in expanded access to naloxone and medication-assisted treatment initiation in over 20 emergency departments across the state. She is a member of several boards and committees, including the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a National Public Health System, the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation National Advisory Board, and several committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Dr. Khaldun has received multiple awards and recognitions including 40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health by the National Minority Quality Forum; 40 Under 40 Leader in Public Health by the de Beaumont Foundation; 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.