Shantanu Agrawal

Shantanu Agrawal was named Chief Health Officer December, 2020. In the role, he reports directly to Anthem CEO Gail K. Boudreaux.

Agrawal oversees Anthem’s enterprise health strategy, to include medical policy and clinical quality, as well as the company’s work to address the social drivers of health, officials said. He also leads Anthem’s community health strategy and the Anthem Foundation.

Agrawal most recently served as president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF), a non-profit organization dedicated to working with members of the healthcare community to drive measurable health improvements. He is also the former Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and is a former director of the Center for Program Integrity (CPI).

Agrawal serves on the board of the Grameen Foundation and the Presidential Advisory Council of Brown University’s School of Public Health. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and an Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Agrawal completed his undergraduate education at Brown University, medical education at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and clinical training in Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his master’s degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.