Speaker's Profile

Jennifer Christian-Herman, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Behavioral Health & Clinical Strategy at Blue Shield of California, a nonprofit health plan serving almost 5 million members across commercial, individual, and government markets. She leads an evolving portfolio of innovations that leverage technology and clinical interventions focused on behavioral health, lifestyle medicine, medical care programs, social drivers of health, and digital therapeutics, with the goal of improving access to care, member engagement and clinical outcomes. She is responsible for developing and leading Blue Shield’s strategy to transform behavioral health for members and providers by expanding access to care, enhancing care coordination, integrating behavioral health into primary care, and offering robust upstream solutions rooted in lifestyle medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist.Much of Jennifer’s work focuses on the intersection of mental, physical and social health. She is passionate about housing as a driver of health and is involved with issues of mental health care in permanent supportive housing and in unhoused populations, including board roles and work with community agencies in Skidrow and Hollywood. She serves on the board of the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health and is a Mental Health Policy Fellow at Inseparable.