Joel Adu-Brimpong is an MD/MBA candidate at Stanford University, currently pursuing policy studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Fellow. His work centers on advancing precision healthcare through AI, health systems engineering and public-private innovation.

Joel began his academic journey at the University of Michigan, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with highest distinction in Behavioral Neuroscience and earning a Master of Health Informatics as a Health Informatics Achievement Fellow. He was named a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholar and later served as a biomedical research fellow at the NIH. His research on digital health, digital therapeutics, learning health systems, and social epidemiology has been published in Nature, JAMA, and other leading journals.

At the Cleveland Clinic, Joel served as a digital health and healthcare administration fellow and later as Program Manager of Strategic Initiatives, where he implemented remote sensing and patient monitoring technologies to expand access and modernize care delivery. As a Graduate Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and an NIH Bridge2AI Scholar, he now researches digital biomarkers of disease progression using wearables and AI-powered tools to enable personalized, proactive medicine.