Devika Bhushan
Devika Bhushan is an Indian-American pediatrician, public health professional, mental health activist, and resilience and equity expert. 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.[4] 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][5][6][7]
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.[8][4] In this role and previously as the Office's inaugural Chief Health Officer (2019-2022), 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.[9][10][8][4]
Previously, Dr. Bhushan served as a pediatrician on Stanford’s faculty and as a health and gender equity researcher.[8][4][11] Since 2023, she has served as a senior advisor to entities advancing health and equity, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness's national Board of Directors.[8][11] 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.[8][4][11][12] Her work has been published in The Lancet,[13] Pediatrics,[14] The Los Angeles Times,[15] and National Public Radio.[16]
Dr. Bhushan is an award-winning mental health activist.[17][18] She 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.[15][16][19] "This was a real watershed moment actually, where somebody of that stature... spoke so openly and, well, just very movingly about her experience with the illness," according to Dr. Michael Myers, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in physician mental health. "This has resonated a lot with the general public, including us in the rest of medicine," he wrote of the impact of this disclosure.[20]
In 2023, Dr. Bhushan launched a podcast to destigmatize mental illness, Spread the light with Dr Devika B[21] and a newsletter focused on evidence-based tools for well-being, Ask Dr Devika B.[22]
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.[8][4]
She is the daughter of public health experts Indu Bhushan (health economist and inaugural CEO of Ayushman Bharat) and Anjana Bhushan (specialist in gender, equity, and human rights).[3][23][24][25]
Dr. Devika Bhushan is married to entrepreneur Ashish Kundra.[26] They have one child: Rumi Kundra-Bhushan (born 2021).
Selected works
- Stall NM, Shah NR, Bhushan D (2023). Unpaid family caregiving—the next frontier of gender equity in a postpandemic future. JAMA Health Forum.
- Gilgoff R, Schwartz T, Owen M, Bhushan D, Burke Harris N (2022). Opportunities to treat toxic stress. Pediatrics.
- Bhushan, Devika (2022). "What should parents know about the COVID vaccine for kids under 5?". Healthy Children. American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Bhushan, Devika (2021). "How educators can address childhood adversity and toxic stress". Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools.
- Raney, Julia; et al. (2021). "Words matter: An antibias workshop for health care professionals to reduce stigmatizing language". Mededportal : The Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources. 17: 11115. PMC 7970642 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33768147 Check|pmid=value (help). - *Bhushan D (2021). How educators can address childhood adversity and toxic stress. Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools. Available at https://thrivingschools.kaiserpermanente.org/how-educators-can-address-childhood-adversity-and-toxic-stress/.
- Bhushan, Devika; et al. (2020). "Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General's Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health". Office of the California Surgeon General.
- Bhushan, Devika; et al. (2019). "Becoming ACEs Aware in California: Core Training". ACEs Aware Initiative.
- Patel, Lisa; Bhushan, Devika (2019). "Gun violence kills and injures thousands of children every year. Here's a solution". The Sacramento Bee.
- Weber, Ann; et al. (2019). "How gender norms shape health: insights from global survey data". Lancet. 393 (10189): 2455–2468. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30765-2. PMID 31155273. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - Bhushan, Devika; et al. (2019). "Implementation of the Continuum of Care Reform Act in Sonoma County. Policy Analysis White Paper". Stanford Law School.
- Berenson, K; et al. (2015). "Rejection sensitivity, perceived power, and HIV risk in the relationships of low-income urban women". Women & Health. 55 (8): 900–920. doi:10.1080/03630242.2015.1061091. PMC 4990078. PMID 26086275.
- Bhushan, Devika; et al. (2013). "Momentary affective states predicting substance use events in depressed youth". Mental Health and Substance Use. 6 (3): 203–218. doi:10.1080/17523281.2012.708357.
- Bhushan, Devika; et al. (2008). "Assessing the consequences of RS-gender [gender-based rejection sensitivity] for women's stereotype threat susceptibility during a math test: Honors Program Thesis". Columbia University.
References
- ↑ Office of the California Surgeon General (12 February 2022). "A Message from the Acting Surgeon General of California".
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 California Partners Project. "Dr Devika Bhushan". California Partners Project.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 National Alliance on Mental Illness. "Dr Devika Bhushan". NAMI.
- ↑ "Home". ACEs Aware. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ↑ National Alliance on Mental Illness California. "Keynote speaker: Dr. Devika Bhushan" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "CBHA Board and Staff". California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies (CCCBHA). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ Moskal, Emily (2022-08-10). "Diversity and inclusion forum emphasizes the power of communication". Stanford University. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 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 Check
|pmid=value (help). Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ 15.0 15.1 Bhushan, Devika (26 August 2022). "Op-Ed: I am California's acting surgeon general. And I have bipolar disorder". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Bhushan, Devika (15 October 2022). "Coming out about my bipolar disorder has led to a new deep sense of community". NPR.
- ↑ "Advocacy Spotlight: Dr. Devika Bhushan". Sharp Index. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ↑ Mental Health Advocacy Services. "2022 Annual Celebration". Mental Health Advocacy Services. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ "The Smerconish Podcast: She Was California's Acting Surgeon General, And Has Bipolar Disorder". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ↑ Myers, MD, Michael. "How Mental Health Care Providers Can Address Stigma, With Dr Michael Myers". www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ "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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