Dr. Tista Ghosh is a Yale-trained preventive medicine physician and epidemiologist, former Chief Medical Officer for the state of Colorado, and a past appointee to the U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force. She has also advised multiple Fortune 500 companies on employee health and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Employee Health at the world’s largest manufacturer of heart valves.
In addition to her public health leadership, Dr. Ghosh is a trained expert in stress management and a published health journalist, with bylines in Fast Company, Business Insider, Inc., HuffPost, and KevinMD. Her expert commentary has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, Healthline, and MarketWatch. She received a 2021 media excellence award for written health journalism from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Her upcoming book, Before the Next Crisis (Columbia University Press, August 5), shares powerful stories from everyday Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic—revealing essential lessons we must learn to prepare for the next public health threat.
