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Ayodola Anise
Ayodola Anise is the senior director of operations for MI Health, supporting FasterCures, Public Health, Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She brings over two decades of experience in advising on and implementing strategy, leading operations, developing staff, and collaborating for organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. Anise brings programmatic expertise on community engagement, health and health care quality and equity, patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER), and value and health payments. Most recently, Anise served as the deputy director for the National Academy of Medicine Leadership Consortium for a Learning Health System, translating the mission into strategic approaches across health equity, evidence generation, digital health, and payment systems. Previously, as a senior program officer for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Anise managed a $78 million patient-centered CER portfolio to improve healthcare systems and equity and led initiatives to foster collaboration among researchers and partners. Before joining PCORI, Anise worked at the Brookings Institution, managing a range of initiatives related to healthcare quality and equity, including efforts with states and hospitals to standardize the collection of race/ethnicity/language data to reduce disparities. Prior to Brookings, Anise worked as a senior associate for the Lewin Group, a health care research and consulting firm, and a project coordinator for a study on women’s health at Georgetown University. Anise earned a bachelor’s in English writing with minors in chemistry and biology from the University of Pittsburgh and a master of health science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.