Strategic advisor in health equity, public health, and mental health, physician, author, Stanford adjunct professor, former acting Surgeon General of California, mental health activist
Devika Bhushan, MD, is a pediatrician and public health leader on a mission to drive health innovation, resilience, and equity. Her expertise spans trauma-informed systems, stress and resilience, mental health, gender and health equity, and public health — featured in NPR, NBC, Sesame Workshop, Rolling Stone, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, Yahoo, The Lancet, Pediatrics, and JAMA. Dr. Bhushan serves as as an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and as a senior strategic advisor to entities that aim to advance health, innovation, and equity — ranging from non-profits to venture capital investment to startups. She frequently advises on mental health representation in the arts, including to playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Sesame Workshop. She is writing a children's book series focuse...