
Darshak Sanghavi, MD, is one of the first Program Managers at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Prior, he was Global Chief Medical and Clinical Operating Officer for Babylon, the global end-to-end digital health care provider serving over a dozen countries and over 24 million people. He is the former Chief Medical Officer of UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare & Retirement and OptumLabs, the R&D hub of UnitedHealth Group. Before then, he was a Director at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where he directed the development of large pilot programs aimed at improving the nation’s health care costs and quality. He was a fellow of the Brookings Institution, and chief of pediatric cardiology at UMass Medical School. A frequent guest on NBC’s Today and past commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, Dr. Sanghavi was a columnist with Slate, the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Post. His best-seller, A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician’s Tour of the Body, was named a best health book of the year by the Wall Street Journal. He previously worked as a U.S. Indian Health Service pediatrician on a Navajo reservation.