Draft:Jason Arora

Jason Arora BMBCh, MA (Hons), MPH (born February 26, 1987) is a US-based British physician, public health scientist, technology executive, entrepreneur, author, and broadcaster. He is the creator and host of the public health podcast The Health Curve.

Arora is a Fulbright Scholar, a winner of the Lord Mayor of London & Guild of Freemen National Prize, one of the youngest recipients of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Public Health Innovator Award, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Arts. Arora was named on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2017.

Early Life, Education, and Clinical Practice

Arora was born and raised in London, UK. He attended Isleworth & Syon School for Boys, where he served as Head Boy, was a Caldecott Lake Scholar, and received several local and regional awards.

He studied Medicine at St. John's College, University of Oxford, where he also graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Medical Sciences and was awarded the Book Prize for academic excellence. He was mentored by Professor Jaideep Pandit and Professor Zoltan Molnar and conducted medical research in experimental neuropathology at Oxford’s Department of Pharmacology.

At Oxford, Arora was the medical school’s delegate to the Royal Society of Medicine, a founding member of OxFizz (a UK-based educational social enterprise), and a fundraiser for the Kenya Poverty Partnership. He also worked as a volunteer teacher in Nepal. As a medical student, he frequently traveled to remote and underserved communities to provide voluntary medical aid, for which he was awarded honorary memberships to The Explorer’s Club and the Society for Scientific Exploration, as well as the Lord Mayor of London & Guild of Freemen National Award.

After Oxford, Arora worked as a National Health Service (NHS) physician at Ealing Hospital and as a global health policy researcher, focusing on chronic disease risk factors. He served on several regional and national healthcare leadership committees, including the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Faculty for Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM). He also worked at the British Medical Journal (BMJ), developing social media tools for public health surveillance.

Arora was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a British Universities of North America Club (BUNAC) Scholarship to study public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he focused on global health system design for chronic disease management and prevention, population health, and the Quintuple Aim. He served on the leadership team of Harvard’s Public Health Innovation & Technology Committee, conducted research at Harvard Business School on digital health applications for improving health outcomes in fast-growing economies, and worked as an intern at the digital health startups Wellframe and HealthTap.

ICHOM, Medtronic, and Value-Based Care

At Harvard, Arora specialized in value-based care and became recognized as a global leader in the field. He was an early hire and Director at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), a nonprofit startup co-founded by Professor Michael Porter at Harvard Business School, Boston Consulting Group, and Karolinska Institutet.

At ICHOM, Arora established and led several global value-based care, big data, real-world research, care model innovation, and quality improvement initiatives, collaborating with organizations such as Great Ormond Street Hospital, Stanford Health Care, Boston Children’s Hospital, the American Heart Association, the British Heart Foundation, Novartis, and Amgen. He was part of the founding team and served on the management board of the Big Data at Heart project, an EU-wide cardiovascular precision health initiative supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative, in partnership with UMC Utrecht, University of Cambridge, University College London, Bayer, Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Servier, Vifor Pharma, and others. As part of the founding team, he helped secure €20 million in funding from the European Commission to support the initiative. Arora was also the lead author of ICHOM’s inaugural book on patient-centered care, What Matters Most: Patient Outcomes and the Transformation of Health Care.

Arora left ICHOM to join Medtronic’s global value-based care leadership under then-CEO Omar Ishrak. As value-based care emerged as a new paradigm in the medical technology industry, Arora helped design several novel approaches to building value-based and outcomes-based reimbursement models around medical devices. He worked directly with several ministers of health to establish value-based care programs and partnerships across Latin America, and became a regular keynote speaker on value-based care in the US, Europe, and Latin America. His work at Medtronic was featured in the Harvard Business School case study, Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape.

Google Life Sciences (Verily)

Arora was appointed Head of Clinical Science Innovation and Head of Medical Affairs at Google Life Sciences (Verily), where he focused on building and applying digital health and AI technologies for clinical trials and evidence generation. His work and contributions spanned several of Verily’s projects, including the Baseline Health Study (an effort to map the full biological spectrum of human health and disease), the Clinical Studies Platform, digital biomarkers for neurodegenerative and cardiovascular disease, and Verily’s national Covid-19 testing platform.

Affiliations and Related Endeavors

Arora’s work continues to focus on the development and application of innovative technologies to enhance human health by combating and preventing chronic disease, and on novel approaches to modern public health challenges. He advises several early-stage startups and is an independent researcher across several related areas: generative AI applications in healthcare, longevity, precision medicine, and early-stage biotechnology. He also mentors medical students and junior physicians looking to transition into innovation and technology.

In 2025, he launched the public health podcast, The Health Curve, which focuses on simplifying health topics for the lay public, combating health misinformation, and raising awareness of health issues affecting underserved populations.

He previously served as a judge for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Awards, as a World Economic Forum Global Health Expert, and has lectured at Oxford University and Harvard University.

Public Speaking and Publications

Arora has been a keynote speaker at major international conferences and forums, including, Congreso Futuro (hosted by the President of Chile), the European Parliament, American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, Royal Society of Medicine, European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), Institute for Health Improvement (IHI), Hospital Israelita Albert Einsteins’s Executive Leadership Forum, The World Bank, Society for Thoracic Surgeons (STS), National Congress of Private Hospitals in Brazil (CONAHP), and America Economia’s Cluster Salud.

He has also published numerous articles in notable outlets and peer-reviewed journals, such as New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Harvard Business Review (HBR), the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Forbes, the European Medical Journal, and the European Journal of Anaesthesiology.

Recognition and Awards

• Forbes 30 Under 30 (2017)
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Public Health Innovator Award (2018)
• Fulbright Scholar
• British Universities of North America Club (BUNAC) Scholar
• Lord Mayor of London & Guild of Freemen National Prize Winner
• Honorary Member, Royal Society of Arts