Ayodola Anise

Ayodola’s Areas of Interest:

o Ensuring institutional equity within hospitals and health systems by examining and identifying opportunities to change organizational practices and policies related to health equity and patient and family engaged care (e.g., connecting executive compensation to equity)
o Improving the connections between health equity and patient and family engaged care (e.g., increasing diversity of PFA, ensuring a culture change in organizations to support equity)

Ayodola Anise, MHS is the Director of the Value & Culture at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Leadership Consortium for a Learning Health System. In this role, Ayodola directs efforts that focus on transitioning health payments from fee-for-service to value and population health, as well as individual and community strategies and equity approaches for health improvement. Before joining NAM, Ayodola worked for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute where she managed a $78 million patient-centered comparative effectiveness research portfolio that tested interventions to improve healthcare systems and health and health care equity. Ayodola also worked at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, where she managed initiatives related to healthcare quality and equity. Prior to joining Brookings, Ayodola worked as a senior associate for The Lewin Group, a health care research and consulting firm, and as project coordinator for a study on women’s health at Georgetown University. Ayodola has over 15 years of experience developing and implementing initiatives, supporting and developing strategies for patient and stakeholder engagement, supporting patient-centered comparative effectiveness research, and advancing health and health care equity. Ayodola has a BA in English writing, with minors in chemistry and biology from the University of Pittsburgh and a MHS from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.