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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

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