Dr. Joel Selanikio MD

Dr. Joel Selanikio is an award-winning physician, TED speaker, and innovator helping organizations harness AI, mobile tech, and data to revolutionize healthcare, disaster response, and global development.

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I strongly recommend Dr. Joel Selanikio as an extraordinary speaker. Bayer, Portugal had Dr. Selanikio on two occasions in Portugal to speak about collaboration and its impact on society and science advances. In both talks he managed to capture the audience’s attention in a most entertaining, fresh, and interesting way.

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Why you should book Dr. Joel Selanikio for your next event

Winner of the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award and Lemelson-MIT Award, bringing award-winning innovation directly to your event’s stage.
Consultant to WHO, UNICEF, Google, and the Clinton Global Initiative, trusted by the world’s most influential institutions to drive impact and innovation.
Featured by TED, The Economist, Forbes, and the BBC, ensuring your audience hears a message backed by global recognition and powerful thought leadership.

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Future-Proofing Health Systems with Smart Data

Dr. Joel Selanikio, TED speaker, award-winning tech innovator, and emergency physician, transforms complex challenges into actionable strategies for health, crisis, and AI-driven innovation. From leading Ebola response in Sierra Leone to advising FEMA during COVID-19, his experience is unmatched. With accolades from The Wall Street Journal and Lemelson-MIT, and consulting credits from WHO to Google, Dr. Selanikio equips your audience with the tools to lead through uncertainty, harness data, and innovate with purpose. Book a keynote that inspires bold thinking and lasting results.

Keynote Speaker Dr. Joel Selanikio is a globally recognized innovator at the intersection of technology, healthcare, crisis leadership, and artificial intelligence. A practicing physician, former CDC epidemiologist, TED speaker, and award-winning inventor, Dr. Selanikio is best known for creating Magpi, the world’s first cloud-based mobile data platform for global health, earning him the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award and the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation.

With frontline experience ranging from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to consulting FEMA during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Selanikio brings unmatched insight into emergency preparedness, data-driven decision-making, and scalable innovation. He has consulted for global organizations including WHO, UNICEF, Google, and the Clinton Global Initiative, and has spoken at Harvard, Davos, Stanford, and the Royal Society of Medicine.

When you book Dr. Joel Selanikio for your event, you bring your audience face-to-face with one of today’s most impactful voices in public health and digital transformation. His keynotes equip corporate, government, and healthcare leaders with actionable strategies for using AI, real-time data, and innovation to navigate disruption, build resilience, and lead with purpose.

Book Dr. Joel Selanikio for your event to inspire bold thinking, challenge conventional approaches, and future-proof your organization with proven expertise and powerful storytelling.

Customer Reviews

Isabel Fonseca Santos Medical Director

He was just incredible from the beginning of our conversations, to the event presentation, to the post event engagement with the audience. A wonderful professional to deal with. I would engage Joel at the next opportunity I have.

Ramon Vega Senior Director, Biogen

If you need inspiration, education and entertainment, Joel covers all three. He was a keynote speaker at the Irish Health Research Board conference on Big Data in Health, the opportunities and challenges ahead. He did not speak to our audience, he brought them on a journey. First we went back in time. This was to ground our understanding of how far we have come in the world of data, big data and AI. Through clever examples and recent research papers he demonstrated the growth and potential of big data and AI for health. If you asked anyone in our audience, they would say it was an incredible journey.

Gillian Markey Communications Manager, Health Research Board

Joel gave an outstanding presentation at our annual partners’ meeting in 2017, speaking to the top 200 leaders in our company. His vision of the impact technology will have on healthcare was compelling ... I’d highly recommend Joel for anyone who is looking for a speaker that will present a compelling vision of the future of healthcare.

John Bienko Principal, ZS Associates

I never felt more satisfaction in any decision than on the one to bring Joel onboard; he gave a fantastic talk to more than 1500, nearly the entire group of attendees.

George Dodge Director, Orthopedic Research Society

Can't say enough about Dr. Selanikio's level of knowledge as well as his ability to "get it" with our group. We contracted with Joel pre-COVID, but he pivoted so gracefully as our keynote under pressure and received extremely positive feedback.

Ross Rollins Director of Marketing and Communications, American Academy of Otolaryngology

Dr. Joel Selanikio delivered an outstanding presentation that truly resonated with our audience. Attendees praised him as a great and dynamic speaker who brought a unique perspective and engaging new thoughts to a frequently discussed topic. His ability to connect the dots for healthcare was highly appreciated, making it a great way to start the forum. Many found his talk fascinating and thought-provoking, even those not from the medical field. Overall, it was one of the best board forum presentations we have had, and his manner of presentation was thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Diane Maas Chief Strategy and Digital Transformation Officer, Beacon Health System

... one of the most engaging, thought-provoking, dynamic, and relevant speakers I have had the pleasure to watch. Relevant, entertaining and insightful .... when you watch him speak, you can immediately see the passion he has for the topic. He has a knack for connecting little-known facts with the topic at hand that leaves the audience in awe... The attendees continued talking about the concepts he presented for days after the event. He is hands-down one of the best keynote speakers I have watched in my career.

Carlos Garmendia Associate Director, Biogen

Dr. Selanikio delivered a mind-blowing message to our audience, illustrating with a unique view how innovation and technology is disrupting the healthcare industry and rattling legacy systems of care. He inspired our audience to think differently about their current systems and practices, and power and potential of consumerism on the future of the healthcare delivery system.

Katie Gilfillan Director, Healthcare Finance Policy, Physician and Clinical Practice, Healthcare Financial Management Association

Keynotes

Keynote by Dr. Joel Selanikio, MD:

The Evolution of Expertise in Healthcare & Elsewhere

AI doesn’t just replicate knowledge — it changes who holds it.

This talk explores how large language models and democratized information are transforming professions built on scarcity of expertise, and how healthcare and education leaders can adapt to remain trusted in a more transparent world.

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Keynote by Dr. Joel Selanikio, MD:

Crisis Thinking

What pandemics and disasters reveal about systems under stress.

Based on experiences with Ebola, COVID, and 9/11 response, this talk examines how institutions make decisions in uncertainty — and what leaders can learn from crisis-tested models of adaptation, improvisation, and resilience.

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Keynote by Dr. Joel Selanikio, MD:

Better and Smaller: How AI Will Improve — and Redefine — Healthcare

Healthcare won’t just get better — it will get smaller.

This talk explains how AI, automation, and patient-driven tools are pushing care out of traditional institutions and into everyday life. For administrators and clinicians, the challenge isn’t to resist — it’s to redesign.

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Keynote by Dr. Joel Selanikio, MD:

Doctor You

What happens when patients no longer need permission to access diagnosis or treatment?

From symptom checkers to smartwatches and generative AI, patients are becoming self-navigators. This talk explores how healthcare systems can evolve — not resist — this shift, and find new value in a post-gatekeeper era.

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