With more than three decades of experience, Susan Knudson leads IT, informatics, health advocacy and well-being programming, pharmacy and dental operations, and health plans for Bloomington-based HealthPartners. Her leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic has created unprecedented innovation opportunities for the health care and insurance provider—leveraging analytics to help boost vaccination rates for patients of color by 120%. Knudson co-chairs the Care Delivery System Coalition, a group of Minnesota’s largest health systems to promote equitable distribution of vaccines.