Karen DeSalvo

Karen DeSalvo is the Chief Health Officer at Google. Karen was previously the Commissioner of Health for the City of New Orleans, the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Director of Humana. Karen is also a Professor at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin and a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

Karen DeSalvo attended Tulane University School of Medicine, earning their MD. Karen then pursued a masters in clinical epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Afterwards, they completed a MPH in general from Tulane University. Finally, they earned their BA in biology/political science from Suffolk University.

Some individuals on their team include Megan Jones Bell - Clinical Director, Consumer & Mental Health, Jacqueline Shreibati - Clinical Lead. Karen DeSalvo reports to David Feinberg, VP, Google Health. They are on a team with Eve Andersson - Director of Inclusive Machine Learning & Accessibility Engineering, Bakul Patel - Senior Director of Global Digital Health Strategy & Regulatory.