Devika Bhushan
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Devika Bhushan is an Indian-American pediatrician, public health professional, and mental health activist. She served as California's Acting Surgeon General in 2022.[1][2][3]
Education
Bhushan earned a BA with research Honors in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She earned an MD at Harvard Medical School and undertook a general pediatrics residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bloomberg Children’s Center and is Board-certified in General Pediatrics, with an active medical license in California.[3][4][5][6]
Career
As California’s Acting Surgeon General (2022),[2] Dr. Bhushan served as a key public health spokesperson and advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom.[7][8] She led policy and practice innovation at a statewide level, co-crafting and launching the $500 million ACEs Aware initiative in California, focused on healing from childhood adversity and enhancing health equity for millions.[9][10][7][8]
Dr. Bhushan has also served on Stanford’s faculty, as a health equity researcher, and now serves as a senior advisor to entities advancing health and equity, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness's national Board of Directors.[7] Dr. Bhushan's areas of clinical, policy, and research expertise are health and gender equity; trauma-informed systems; stress, health, and resilience; and mental health.[7][8] Her work has been published in The Lancet,[11] Pediatrics,[12] The Los Angeles Times,[13] and National Public Radio.[14]
Dr. Bhushan is an award-winning mental health activist,[15] having shared her journey with bipolar disorder publicly while serving as California's acting Surgeon General in 2022 to help destigmatize mental illness and promote healing.[13][14][16] In 2023, she launched a podcast to destigmatize mental illness, Spread the light with Dr Devika B [17] and a newsletter focused on evidence-based tools for well-being, Ask Dr Devika B.[18]
Personal life
Dr. Devika Bhushan grew up in three countries: India, the United States, and the Philippines. She is an immigrant and a first-generation American.[7][8]
She is the daughter of public health experts Indu Bhushan (health economist and inaugural CEO of Ayushman Bharat) and Anjana Bhushan (expert in gender, equity, and human rights).[3][19][20][21]
Dr. Devika Bhushan is married to entrepreneur Ashish Kundra.[22] They have one son: Rumi Kundra-Bhushan (born 2021).
References
- ↑ Office of the California Surgeon General (12 February 2022). "A Message from the Acting Surgeon General of California".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "California's first surgeon general on Covid: 'Greatest collective trauma' of a generation". The Guardian. 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Service, Tribune News. "India-born Devika Bhushan is California's top doctor". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ↑ "Verification of Certification | The American Board of Pediatrics". www.abp.org. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ Stanford University. "Devika Bhushan". healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ Medical Board of California. "Home". Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 National Alliance on Mental Illness. "Dr Devika Bhushan". NAMI.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 California Partners Project. "Dr Devika Bhushan". California Partners Project.
- ↑ "Home". ACEs Aware. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ↑ National Alliance on Mental Illness California. "Keynote speaker: Dr. Devika Bhushan" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ Weber, Ann M.; Cislaghi, Beniamino; Meausoone, Valerie; Abdalla, Safa; Mejía-Guevara, Iván; Loftus, Pooja; Hallgren, Emma; Seff, Ilana; Stark, Lindsay; Victora, Cesar G.; Buffarini, Romina; Barros, Aluísio J. D.; Domingue, Benjamin W.; Bhushan, Devika; Gupta, Ribhav (2019-06-15). "Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data". The Lancet. 393 (10189): 2455–2468. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30765-2. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 31155273.
- ↑ Gilgoff R, Schwartz T, Owen M, Bhushan D, Burke Harris N. (2023). "Opportunities to treat toxic stress". Pediatrics. 151 (1). doi:10.1542/peds.2021-055591. PMID 36450652.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ 13.0 13.1 Bhushan, Devika (26 August 2022). "Op-Ed: I am California's acting surgeon general. And I have bipolar disorder". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Bhushan, Devika (15 October 2022). "Coming out about my bipolar disorder has led to a new deep sense of community". NPR.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Advocacy Spotlight: Dr. Devika Bhushan". Sharp Index. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ↑ "The Smerconish Podcast: She Was California's Acting Surgeon General, And Has Bipolar Disorder". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ↑ "Spread the light with Dr Devika B on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. 2023-08-29. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ↑ Bhushan, Dr Devika. "About - Ask Dr Devika B". askdrdevikab.substack.com. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ↑ "Dr. Indu Bhushan | ICFP". Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ "Anjana Bhushan". www.forum2015.org. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ Maravilla, Rafael. "India-born Devika Bhushan is California's top doctor [tribuneindia.com]". PACEsConnection. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ Kundra, Ashish. "Linked In Profile". Retrieved 2022-12-26.
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