Harvinder Sareen, Ph.D., is the Clinical Programs Director for WellPoint?s Medicaid business unit. Dr. Sareen plays a key role in leading WellPoint?s initiative to promote healthier lifestyles and address childhood obesity. Under her leadership, the initiative has facilitated innovative BMI training and other resources for primary care physicians as well as partnered with academic institutions to generate evidence for school fresh fruit and vegetable bars and furthermore support legislation on child nutrition and salad bars. Her work focuses on leveraging clinical best practices, instituting functional health literacy to improve health outcomes, advancing patient-centered medical homes in Medicaid and evaluating innovative approaches such as ?exergaming? for health promotion.
Dr. Sareen has spearheaded several collaborative projects with leaders in the arenas of healthcare, research, and public service including the National Committee for Quality Assurance, to pilot test the feasibility of a performance measure in childhood obesity; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California Child Health and Disability Prevention Program, to promote standard screening for obesity and BMI measurement; the California Governor?s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to promote healthier lifestyles among young adolescents in low-income communities; and the University of California, Los Angeles, to evaluate the effectiveness of the fresh fruit and vegetable bar program for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
In addition to the above, Dr. Sareen has developed SimpleSteps, a pilot wellness program for employees under the umbrella of WellPoint?s Choose Better Health program. She also co-chaired the California WellPoint Associate Wellness Committee for five years.
Dr. Sareen holds a doctoral degree from the UCLA School of Public Health with a minor in Anthropology. Her previous work includes working closely with underserved populations in northern India, the Women, Infants, and Children program in South Los Angeles, the California Healthy Start program, AIDS Project Los Angeles, First 5 Ventura County, California, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Sareen serves on the advisory boards of the National Institute of Health Care Management Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Council and the Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) Center for Best Practices. She is an active member of the Society for Research on Child Development and the American Public Health Association. Dr. Sareen was inducted into the Delta-Omega National Honorary Society in Public Health in 2004 and was the recipient of the MHPA Joy Wheeler Leadership Award in 2011.
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