Dr. Smisha Agarwal
Director, CGDHI and Associate Professor, Department of International Health
Center for Global Digital Health Innovation at Johns Hopkins University
United States
Dr. Smisha Agarwal, PhD, MPH, MBA, BDS is the Director of the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation and Associate Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She brings expertise in advancing primary health care through strengthening community health systems and leveraging innovative technological solutions including digital tools and integrated diagnostics. Over the last two decades, her research has been leveraged by normative agencies like WHO to develop guidelines on national digital transformation, donors to guide investments in digital health and AI, and governments to develop their national digital health strategies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Open Digital Health Journal.