Dr. Devika Bhushan is a pediatrician, public health leader, and author with expertise in healthinnovation, stress and resilience, trauma-informed systems, and gender and health equity. Dr.Bhushan serves on Stanford’s adjunct faculty, and as a senior strategic advisor to entities thataim to advance health innovation and equity, ranging from startups to a venture capital fund. Shefrequently advises on mental health representation in the arts, including to Tony-winningplaywright V (formerly Eve Ensler), for the play, This is Crazy. She is writing a children’s bookseries on stress and resilience, in partnership with Dr. Bruce D. Perry. Her insights have beenfeatured in The Lancet, Pediatrics, JAMA, NBC, NPR, Slate, Rolling Stone, and The Los AngelesTimes.Previously, as California’s acting Surgeon General (2022) and the office’s inaugural ChiefHealth Officer (2019-2022), Dr. Bhushan was an advisor to California’s Governor and co-led thelaunch of the $500 million ACEs Aware initiative, focused on healing from childhood trauma.Dr. Bhushan serves on the national Boards for the National Alliance on Mental Illness and theCalifornia Partners Project. In addition, she is an award-winning mental health spokesperson andappears in the PBS documentary BrainStorm (2027).Dr. Bhushan trained at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins. She is a parent and a first-generation Indian American.