Shubham leads McKinsey’s healthcare work globally. He serves leading healthcare institutions on all top-management agenda issues. His primary areas of focus include strategy, growth, M&A, business building, and large-scale performance transformation. He has extensively served publicly traded and not-for-profit payers as well as public payers for more than 15 years. He also serves providers as well as healthcare technology and pharmacy companies.
Shubham leads McKinsey’s thinking and research on the future of healthcare in the wake of rapid advancements in digital, advanced analytics, and medical technologies; emergence of new treatments; healthcare reform and regulatory change; the rise of the healthcare consumer; and risk disaggregation and reallocation across the healthcare system. He has deeply studied the shifts in overall spend as well as profit pools within the healthcare industry as these structural shifts play out. His expertise has been key in defining the structural and performance implications of this transformation for payers, providers, and services organizations across the healthcare value chain.
Shubham has led the significant expansion of the firm's healthcare capabilities, including the insights developed through the McKinsey Center for US Health System Reform. He has catalyzed our capabilities as the leading impact partner for healthcare clients by building breadth and depth across actuarial, advanced analytics, implementation, capability building, design, and digital. Finally, through the establishment of the Center for Societal Benefit through Healthcare, he has advanced our aperture to further our aspiration to fundamentally improve healthcare.
Published work
“The great acceleration in healthcare: Six trends to heed,” McKinsey & Company, September 2020
“An optimistic scenario for the US response to COVID-19,” McKinsey & Company, September 2020
“COVID-19: Saving thousands of lives and trillions in livelihoods,” McKinsey & Company, August 2020
“‘And now win the peace’: Ten lessons from history for the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“Ten innovations that can improve global health,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“How prioritizing health could help rebuild economies,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“Reopening safely: Sample practices from essential businesses,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020
“From thinking about the next normal to making it work: What to stop, start, and accelerate,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020
“COVID-19: Strategies for getting ahead of the pandemic crisis,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
“The future is not what it used to be: Thoughts on the shape of the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
“Critical care capacity: The number to watch during the battle of COVID-19,” McKinsey & Company, March 2020
“Beyond coronavirus: The path to the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, March 2020
Future of Healthcare
“Fit for the future: The common challenges facing healthcare systems—and how to meet them,” McKinsey & Company, October 2019
“Recession and resilience: Preparing healthcare leaders for the next economic downturn,” McKinsey & Company, July 2019
“The era of exponential improvement in healthcare?,” McKinsey & Company, May 2019
“The future of healthcare: Finding the opportunities that lie beneath the uncertainty,” McKinsey & Company, January 2018
“Why the evolving healthcare services and technology market matters,” McKinsey & Company, May 2018
“Planning for the future of healthcare – Benjamin Breier, President and CEO, Kindred Healthcare,” McKinsey & Company, December 2017
“Why understanding medical risk is key to US health reform,” McKinsey & Company, May 2017
“Digital healthcare: How disruptive will it be?,” Against the Odds, McKinsey & Company, May 2017
“The next imperatives for US healthcare,” McKinsey & Company, November 2016
Productivity and Growth
“The productivity imperative for healthcare delivery in the United States,” McKinsey & Company, February 2019
“Trends disrupting pharmacy value pools and potential implications for the value chain,” McKinsey & Company, February 2018
“Where to compete in today’s healthcare market,” McKinsey & Company, May 2017
“Value-based care: is it sustainable?” McKinsey & Company, May 2017
“Distributed sites of care: At a tipping point?” McKinsey & Company, May 2017
“Pharma spending growth: Making the most of our dollars,” Against the Odds, McKinsey & Company, May 2017
“The growth opportunity for private health insurance companies,” McKinsey & Company, January 2017
“Global private payors: A trillion-euro growth industry,” McKinsey & Company, December 2016
“Payors in Care Delivery: When Does Vertical Integration Make Sense?” Health Affairs, February 2014
Past Experience
Unilever
Various executive positions, including plant and engineering management
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
MBA
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
BSc, mechanical engineering