Dr. Shenita R. Freeman is a senior leader in data governance, solution leadership, and health technology strategy, with deep experience helping organizations translate complex policy, compliance, and modernization goals into viable decision-ready systems.
Dr. Freeman serves as senior director of the Solutions Leadership and Data Governance practice at Mathematica and leads an enterprise-facing function that sits at the intersection of technology, data, and delivery. In this role, she guides Solution Leaders and project teams in designing, governing, and operating cohesive, end-to-end data and technology-enabled solutions, ensuring that technical strategy, system design, and delivery execution are integrated, compliant, scalable, and aligned with organizational mission and priorities across federal, state, foundation, and commercial markets.
Under her leadership, the Solutions Leadership and Data Governance practice supports the full solution life cycle—establishing shared expectations for data stewardship, technology risk management and operations, and architectural alignment—while serving as trusted technical advisors helping project teams and clients to navigate complex, ambiguous environments while balancing both innovation and risk.
Previously, Dr. Freeman held a dual role as Chief Scientist for the Health Emerging and Advanced Technologies Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Chief Technology Strategy Officer for the Georgia Department of Public Health, where she helped translate national data modernization priorities into action-oriented public health systems at the state level. She has also led data automation, health informatics, and visualization initiatives in historically underserved domains, including correctional health care.
Across roles, Dr. Freeman is known for connecting strategy to execution—helping organizations move from policy and aspiration to repeatable practice—particularly in environments facing constrained resources, evolving compliance requirements, and high public accountability.
Dr. Freeman serves as a governing councilor for the American Public Health Association and co-authored a chapter in Healthy Aging Through The Social Determinants of Health, on health information systems for healthy aging through the lens of social determinants of health. She holds master’s degrees in public health (epidemiology) and health informatics administration and a doctorate in cybersecurity, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach to modern data and technology leadership.
In collaboration with the CDC and PHIG Partners (NNPHI, ASTHO, and PHAB) Mathematica operates as an Implementation Center; working with public health agencies (PHAs) to accelerate data exchange practices to reduce burden and improve public health threat detection and health outcomes across populations.
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