Smriti Kirubanandan MS,MPH,CN

Smriti has a strong background in robotics and public health and currently serves as a Global Director & Head, Strategic Marketing, Healthcare and Lifesciences at TATA Consultancy Services, where she focuses on driving significant transformations within the healthcare ecosystem, concentrating on customer experience, intelligent automation, data analytics and insights, and is determined to make healthcare more accessible and affordable through innovation and empathy. She also spearheads brand development, thought leadership, and market research.

Smriti is a selected Young Global Leader 2023 by the World Economic Forum, a member of the Young Leaders Circle at the Milken Institute, and is the Founder of HLTH Forward Podcast- an award-winning media platform that hosts healthcare leaders, policymakers, and artists to discuss the challenges in the system and what we could do collectively to move healthcare forward.

An empathetic and innovative strategic policy advisor has helped organizations globally to build the capacity to empower people to engage in wellness programs and is responsible for educating small farmers in Africa to lift them out of poverty to improve food & nutrition insecurity, impacting 2 million people per year. In 2022, Smriti was appointed to serve the Los Angeles County food equity round table as a Nutrition & Policy Advisor to design and strategize programs to address food insecurity by educating and improving access and affordability to nutritious food.

Smriti has shared her thought leadership across many national forums.She is a health news contributor featured on Forbes, Washington Post, ABC News, Huffington Post, Times of India, The Hindu, VegNews, Medium, Yahoo News, and more.

Smriti holds her Bachelor of Science in Robotics, Master in Engineering Management from the University of Southern California, and Masters in Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles. She is also a Certified Raw Vegan Chef and Nutritionist and is currently in Fellowship with the American College of Healthcare Executives.