Gabriella Palmeri
Gabriella Palmeri, BS is an expert in digital health and has spent a decade developing innovative digital solutions to close gaps and eliminate stigma in sexual healthcare. Growing up with both parents as OB/GYNs, Gabriella quickly became an advocate for improving access to sexual and reproductive health care from a young age.
Gabriella is a founding member of the U.S. Business Action Alliance to End HIV. She’s spoken at the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Her work bridging healthcare disparities has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, her writing on inequities in HIV care has been featured in LGBTQ Nation, and she’s been featured as a digital health expert on Fox News and CBS.
She is the VP of Business Development at Healthvana, the leading technology company working to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. Since 2015, using patient-centered technology, Healthvana has helped over 600,000 patients receive HIV/STI and HIV prevention-related care. Healthvana’s customers include the largest national HIV care provider and the nation’s largest public health department. In January 2024, Healthvana launched one of the first patient-facing Generative AI systems. To date, tens of thousands of patients have utilized Healthvana’s Conversational AI to receive stigma-free health information and care navigation. Gabriella has led the curation of sexual health content for Healthvana’s AI, with a focus on increasing women’s awareness of biomedical HIV prevention methods.
Formerly Gabriella was a Lead Supervisory Statistician for the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the principal source of information on the health of the US population, where she was responsible for data collection and quality for the Western US and managed a staff of 140. She also developed and implemented new data collection and safety policies and procedures at the onset of COVID-19, leading to their adoption across the entire Census Bureau, enhancing the organization’s responsiveness and accuracy during an unprecedented period for both the CDC and Census Bureau.
Prior to the CDC, Gabriella was the Chief of Staff at a direct-to-consumer digital sexual healthcare startup, acquired by Mayo Clinic. The company connected patients to the most affordable, comprehensive STI testing and encouraged its users to engage in open communication about STI status between partners. Gabriella also represented the company at the Mayo Clinic’s MedTech Accelerator.
Gabriella has a BS in Biology and BS in Political Science from Pepperdine University, where she graduated with honors as a 4-year NCAA D1 scholarship athlete in Women’s Indoor Volleyball. Gabriella was a 2-time captain of her team and 3 Time All-Academic American. She also is a volunteer EMT.