Dr. Monique Smith is a builder and a translator; she has worked across five continents to deploy data and technology in expanding access to care, addressing supply chain challenges,  and systematically tackling barriers to health inequity.  As the Director of Design & Innovation, Monique leads RockHealth.org’s Responsible Design Initiative. Likewise, as an Emergency Physician and Founder at Health DesignED at Emory, she channels the experiences of her patients into reimagining how technology and new ways of providing care might bring about equity in wellbeing. 

Monique is a two-time digital health founder and advisor. Prior to joining Emory, she advised early stage companies on tech-enabled care for seniors, digital vaccines, and virtual care platforms. Smith has appeared in the New York Times and CNN and currently serves as a health equity and innovation advisor for Fortune 500 companies as well as on the White House’s Clinician Innovator Roundtable on Health Equity in Technology and Innovation. 

Dr. Smith obtained her Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Harvard; Masters in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing at the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and her MD from Harvard. Prior to Grady Memorial Hospital, Dr. Smith practiced emergency medicine at Kaiser Permanente and safety-net hospitals in Oakland and Atlanta.