Vandana Pant

Launch and manage new ventures, product development and scale for programs in mental health & addiction care, maternity & women’s health. Lead human-centered design led strategy and development workshops for initiatives with system impact. Manage ops, P&L, growth and impact of new products and services. Leverage seed philanthropic investments with new ventures to advance mission and innovation. Recent highlights: Founding lead - Scout by Sutter Health, digital platform to support everyday resilience for youth dealing with anxiety and depression. Execution: Scale and adoption of multiple new digital solutions in Maternity, SDoH and strategic partnerships to improve provider, clinician and patient experiences and health outcomes. Development of rapid response initiatives to support COVID 19 needs. The Sutter Health Design & Innovation team leverages human-centered design to create friction-free healthcare that is human, simple, affordable and engaging by launching internal and external product and service experiences, partnering with world-class thought leaders and companies, and helping to create an internal culture of innovation.

Founding team member and lead on operations, deployment, strategy and philanthropy for Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation. Created a regional network of community and public partnerships for Sutter Health: Palo Alto Medical Foundation to pilot upstream multigenerational initiative addressing social isolation and loneliness: linkAges, across the SF Bay Area.

Facilitated launch and development of multiple community-based health initiatives with a focus on policy and programs. Areas of impact were community access to fresh food, HIV/AIDS, chronic disease management, oral health, healthy aging. Lead for strategic partnerships and philanthropy. Led the engagement of public, private and nonprofit stakeholders including city, county and state governments, corporations, foundations and direct service providers. Supported regional grant making. Managed board relations. Member of Leadership Team.

Lead for philanthropic engagement. Created stakeholder collaboratives of institutions, donors and artists to advance and support diverse programs for international artist residency and performing arts center. Developed initiatives focused on arts education in underserved public schools, literary arts and interdisciplinary public arts programs. As a member of the management team led positioning of Montalvo as a contemporary arts center with global impact.

Consultant to public benefit corporations. Areas: Strategic Management & Growth, Resource Development, Program Design, Board Relations, Partnerships & Collaboration.

Lead for strategy and execution on institutional philanthropy and communications. Supported agency role in community advocacy and policy on disability rights.

Clinical Psychology (Major), Economics, English Literature

The AJK Mass Communication Research Centre was founded in 1982 in collaboration with York University, Toronto and the Canadian International Development Aid Agency.