Erica is cofounder and Global Executive Director of the McKinsey Health Institute (MHI), a global, non-profit-generating institute within the firm. She has spent close to 20 years working across public, private, and social sectors, with a focus on a holistic approach to care, inclusive of brain health and social determinants of health.
MHI was founded on the belief that over the next decade, humanity could add as much as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life – and that health investment is central to thriving societies and economies. MHI’s mission is to catalyze the actions needed across continents, sectors, and communities to realize this possibility.
Through MHI, Erica leads ongoing efforts to invest in issues deeply relevant to society, including deep work in brain health—across mental, neurological, and substance-use disorders—and with the explicit purpose of convening leaders, advancing research, creating and promoting open-access data assets, and stimulating innovation. Under Erica’s leadership, MHI collaborates with a robust network of organizations worldwide around this shared vision. This builds on the strong foundation of McKinsey’s Center for Societal Benefit through Healthcare, which Erica cofounded and led for several years before its integration into MHI.
Prior to launching MHI, Erica co-led the firm’s work in behavioral-health analytics, developing solutions for payers, government agencies, providers, and not-for-profits to improve treatment, care delivery, and payment systems for people with behavioral-health conditions. She also supported our client service around social determinants of health, working with cross-sector organizations to find sustainable ways to address unmet health-related basic needs. Erica also helped to launch and lead the McKinsey Center for US Health System Reform as a go-to voice for clients on health policies and health-insurance markets more broadly.
Before joining McKinsey, Erica worked for a boutique healthcare-strategy consultancy. She was also with Massachusetts General Hospital, collaborating on clinical-trial research and assisting in the management of a mental health-focused not for profit, and spent time working with the Carter Center’s mental health program in Atlanta. Erica has served on the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in New York City and is committed to inspiring people around the world to be better mental-health advocates.
