Giridhar Mallya

Giridhar Mallya is a public health physician and health policy expert at RWJF focusing on state and local policy for achieving a Culture of Health. Mallya was director of Policy and Planning for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, where he led the Department’s Get Healthy Philly tobacco control and obesity prevention initiatives to reduce adult and youth smoking and childhood obesity while narrowing racial and socioeconomic disparities. Mallya earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Brown University, graduated from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown, and completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He received a master’s in health policy from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.