Shoshanah built AIRnyc based on early results of a participatory-based community research pilot in Harlem to address high rates of asthma among Black and Hispanic children. In 2009, Shoshanah established AIRnyc as the go-to, community-rooted, tech-enabled workforce for providers, payers and people who are serious about addressing the social drivers of health with a whole person, value-based approach.

Shoshanah began her career in population health in the Peace Corps as a Community Health Worker in Burkina Faso. She has worked in Africa, Asia and Cuba to study, build and scale public health interventions including the International Trachoma Initiative which operated in 11 countries in a public-private partnership with Pfizer. Shoshanah has served as a member of the leadership team at the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene’s Division of Disease Control, where she led strategic initiatives to improve quality at STI and TB clinics and the Public Health Laboratory. Shoshanah holds an MS in Population Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MBA from Columbia University. Shoshanah received the Trailblazer award in 2019 from NYC’s Community Research Exchange and was a 2019 Aspen Health Fellow and a member of the RWJF Global Design Team. She serves on the advisory boards of the NYC Mayor’s Environmental Justice Committee, the Columbia University Center for Children’s Environmental Health, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), The David Prize, Stop the Spread, the Maternal Health Advisory Board at Northwestern University, and NCQA’s Expanding the Evidence Base for Race and Ethnicity Data.