Eldesia L. Granger MD, MPH, FAAP, FACP
Eldesia L. Granger MD, MPH, FAAP, FACP
Principal Health and Life Sciences Advisor
The MITRE Corporation
Dr. Eldesia Granger is a Principal Health and Life Sciences Advisor at The MITRE Corporation. At MITRE, Dr. Granger applies her expertise to policy, program, and technology solutions to advance health care, health equity, and population health. Her work includes providing strategic guidance to federal health agencies implementing national health programs, analysis and design of health care delivery and payment models, enhancing health technologies, and health innovations research focused on data ethics, modeling and simulation, and synthetic data. At MITRE, her leadership roles have included serving as a Group Leader for Health Quality Management, within MITRE Labs’ Health Innovation Center, and establishing and leading the Clinical Community of Practice. Her accomplishments include developing an Ethical Framework for Consumer-Generated Data in Health Care, being named a 2017 Technology Rising Star at the Career Communications Group’s Women of Color magazine STEM Conference, and receiving two Program Recognition Awards, MITRE’s highest honor recognizing the technical excellence, collaboration, innovation, and mission impact of employees across the organization. Outside MITRE, Dr. Granger continues to provide individual patient care and remains engaged in clinical education. Dr. Granger is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, and public health and general preventive medicine. She completed her medical residency trainings at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Granger earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Duke University, a M.D. from the Tufts University School of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.