Basic HTML Version

|  | Table of Contents |  | View Full Version

Page 34 - The Indian EYE 071026
P. 34

    The Indian Eye
                                            NORTH AMERICAN Newsline                                                                         34
                                                                                                                         JULY 10, 2026

                     Mayor Mamdani Appoints Bharti Sharma

             Executive Director of the Center for Innovation

                                           through Data Intelligence

            OUR BUREAU                                                                                            COVID-19 pandemic, one of the
                                                                                                                  most challenging periods in modern
            NEW YORK, NY
                                                                                                                  healthcare  history,”  said  Laura  Ia-
                     ayor Zohran Kwame Mam-                                                                       vicoli,  Chief  Medical  Officer,  NYC
                     dani has announced  the                                                                      Health + Hospitals /Elmhurst. “I wit-
            Mappointment  of  Bharti                                                                              nessed firsthand how her leadership,
            Sharma as Executive Director of the                                                                   innovation,  and  relentless  focus  on
            Center for Innovation through Data                                                                    data-driven  decision-making  helped
            Intelligence (CIDI).                                                                                  guide our health system through an
               “Bharti  Sharma  has  dedicat-                                                                     extraordinarily difficult time. She has
            ed her career to using data as a tool                                                                 a rare ability to connect data, strategy,
            to improve people’s lives,” said May-                                                                 and human impact, and I can think
            or Mamdani. “Whether leading our                                                                      of  few  people  better  suited  to  help
            city’s  public  health  response  during                                                              shape policies and decisions that im-
            the  global  COVID-19  pandemic  or                                                                   prove the lives of New Yorkers. City
            building  systems  to  make  govern-                                                                  Hall is gaining an exceptional leader
            ment more effective, she has shown                                                                    and public servant.”
            how responsible, creative use of data                                                                    “Bharti  represents  a  new  gen-
            can help solve our city’s most press-                                                                 eration  of  data  and  AI  leaders,”
            ing  issues.  Her  leadership  will  help                                                             said Divya Pathak, Chief AI Officer
            City  government  deliver  better  ser-                                                               at  Regeneron.  “She  has  redefined
            vices and real results that New York-                                                                 how a large, complex healthcare sys-
            ers deserve.”                                                                                         tem builds and scales intelligence —
               “Bharti   Sharma   brings   un-  most recently served as Senior Di-  Administration from Hofstra Uni-  distributing it across the organization
            matched experience and expertise   rector of Data and AI Strategic En-  versity  and a Master of Science in   while maintaining strong governance
            that will be invaluable as we coordi-  ablement  and  Operations at NYC   Information  Systems  Engineering   and operational discipline. Her work
            nate comprehensive, citywide solu-  Health + Hospitals, the nation’s larg-  and  Management  from  Harrisburg   is innovative, impactful, and sets the
            tions  for  health  and  social  services,”  est municipal health system,  which   University.        standard for how public-sector sys-
            said  Deputy Mayor for Health and   includes  more  than  70  care  loca-  “I  had  the  privilege  of  working   tems  can  become  more  intelligent,
            Human Services  Dr. Helen Artea-  tions  and  11 acute care hospitals.  side-by-side  with  Bharti  during  the   agile, and future-ready.”
            ga. “I am confident that she will be an   During  the  COVID-19  pandemic,
            exceptional leader as we work to pro-  she designed and led the systemwide
            vide solutions for all New Yorkers.”   COVID-19  Intelligence  Hub,  pro-
               “It is an honor to serve the peo-  viding  executive  leadership  with  re-
            ple  of  New  York  City  in  this  role,”  al-time data on ICU capacity, emer-
            said Bharti Sharma, Executive Direc-  gency  department  throughput,  bed
            tor,  Center  for  Innovation  through   availability,  surge  planning,  ventila-
            Data  Intelligence.  “CIDI  sits  at  an   tor  supply  and  other critical opera-
            extraordinary intersection where   tional metrics.  She also led the de-
            government, data, and human impact   velopment  of  the  City’s  testing  and
            converge and that is precisely where   vaccination wait-time dashboards.
            I want to be.  I’ve  spent my career   Following the pandemic, Sharma
            inside  public  health  systems,  seeing   founded and scaled the Data Cham-
            firsthand how the right data or the ab-  pion Program to more than 300 em-
            sence of it shapes outcomes for real   bedded champions across every hos-
            people. I come ready to listen, to build,  pital,  central  office  and  ambulatory
            and to ensure that the work we do   site  in the system. She also  led the
            here delivers for every New Yorker.”  Data Academy, which has trained
                Founded in 2011,  CIDI  con-  more than 500 staff members. Togeth-
            ducts interagency research to identi-  er, those programs generated an esti-
            fy gaps in City services and improve   mated $4.75 million to $5.5 million in
            outcomes for New Yorkers. The center   annual cost avoidance  while  estab-
            works across Health and Human Ser-  lishing NYC H+H’s enterprise data
            vice (HHS) agencies and other City   governance framework as a national-
            partners to  use data,  research  and   ly recognized for responsible data use.
            collaboration  to  inform  policy  and   Sharma holds a Bachelor of
            strengthen  service  delivery.  Sharma   Dental Surgery, a Master of Health

                                                                   www.TheIndianEYE.com

| 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 |