Summary
Anisha Gururaj is a global health program leader and business development professional with 11 years of experience building “0-to-1” health innovations that bridge engineering, social science, and commercial strategy. She has designed and managed $60M+ portfolios at the Gates Foundation focused on diagnostics, data science, and digital maternal-newborn tools across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and now drives digital diagnostics partnerships at PathAI. Known for creating and scaling $10–50M+ cross-sector collaborations, she combines technical rigor from an MIT engineering background with policy and diplomacy training from Oxford to accelerate regulated digital health products. Anisha’s track record spans hands-on R&D, platform commercialization, and executive stakeholder engagement, with a particular, long-standing focus on empowering midwives and advancing equitable outcomes in women’s health.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Parkway Central High School
Master's by Research Medical Sciences Division, Master's by Research Medical Sciences Division at University of Oxford
Bachelors of Science Chemical-Biological Engineering Energy Studies, Bachelors of Science Chemical-Biological Engineering Energy Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Kannada, Latin