A friend for every health journey
We are on a mission to make sure nobody ever feels isolated, lost or powerless in the face of existing or potential disease.
The Big Vision
We are working to advance precision medicine by crowdsourcing personal health data and medically-validated insights, applying AI to process them and providing highly personalized informational support on the medical, lifestyle and psychological aspects of living with chronic disease. We are empowering consumers to mine their “healthomes” for actionable information with the end goal of furthering personalized medicine. Our mobile personal health assistant named Gali relies on individual health information and collective intelligence to help people with chronic conditions proactively manage their health.
Product Health Assistant
Advanced AI-based algorithms allow Gali to create a highly personalized feed of helpful, timely and relevant health-related content, including user-generated insights and curated online resources, standard clinical care guidelines, educational and lifestyle tips and more.
Gali records and analyzes comprehensive information about your health and lifestyle through a combination of daily self-reporting, natural language chat and various health surveys. She allows you to sync your wearable devices and Apple Health data to help her learn more about your individual health needs. You can tell Gali as much as you want about your health journey and every new piece of information allows her to further personalize her support. She also regularly creates actionable reports that you can use to manage your illness and share with your care team.
Gali uses natural language chat to speak with you about your condition and provide encouragement, learn more about your needs and experiences and answer any health-related question you ask her.
Gali collects medical knowledge from doctors and other wellness professionals and constantly learns from the most up-to-date, peer-reviewed medical publications and clinical guidelines. She also appreciates the expertise that every person brings to their chronic illness treatment and care. She relies on collective intelligence by gathering health experiences from millions of people in the form of blogs, videos and articles. Along with these user-created insights, Gali community members can share everyday resources they find helpful to managing their conditions. Medical professionals validate these insights to ensure that Gali delivers the most reliable and comprehensive health information.
Gali awards points to all platform participants for sharing data and contributing personal insights and medical knowledge. Most frequent contributors with the highest quality content earn the most Gali points, which can be redeemed for tangible rewards.
How Gali Works
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Community health insights
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User’s health info
- Lifestyle & behavior
- Health history
- Wearables
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Personalized Health Feed
- Health management & analytics
- Actionable insights
- Integrative support
Patient
- Health experience
- Management approaches
- Tips and tricks
Medical
- Care & treatment guidelines
- Insights
- Latest research
To learn more about how Gali works, please visit our Help Center.
Gali Ambassador Program
The Gali Health Ambassador Program focuses on inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and ensures that the IBD community is directly involved in Gali’s design and development. Our ambassadors provide feedback, guidance and leadership within the Gali user community.
Want to join us?
If you’d like to become a Gali Health Ambassador, please contact Director of Clinical Programs Kayla Kraich.
Who We Are
Gali Health, Inc. is a San Francisco-based consumer-focused health technology company. The Gali team works at the crossroads of medicine and psychology, technology and AI, social engineering, education and media. We are doctors and clinicians, scientists, consumer product specialists, designers and engineers all with a personal stake in what we do. We believe that on-demand access to relevant and valid medical information is not a privilege, but a right, in the power of community to illuminate our health journeys and in letting users decide what to do with their data.
Our Values
Intelligence
Facts, relevance and timing
Helpfulness
Utility and real value
Innovation
It hasn’t been done
Community
No man is an island
Find us at TechSpace in San Francisco!
Gali Core Team
Ilya Kupershmidt
Founder & CEO
Illumina, NextBio, Agilent
A serial life science entrepreneur and challenge-driven leader.
Anatoly Volovik
Head of Product Management
Gett, SpeedDate, SFAA
A seasoned product expert and devoted consumer advocate.
Anna Arutiunova
Head of Communications
Aurora Prize, Foreign Policy, Google
Guardian of the brand voice and creative storyteller.
Kayla Kraich, PsyD
Director, Clinical Programs
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, UC Davis Medical Center, Loma Linda University
Behavioral health expert helping to develop tech for people with chronic conditions.
Arielle Radin
Director, Clinical Research
UCLA, NYU, Columbia
A rigorous clinical researcher and mind-body enthusiast.
Meredith Mangold
Lead Patient Advocate
Georgetown University, One Medical Group, Virginia Hospital Center
An empowered chronic illness advocate and professional patient.
Tiffany Jordan
Senior Manager, Health Programs
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, National MS Society, UCLA
A passionate patient advocate and believer in the power of connection.
Stas Udotov
Head of Design
D/Workz Interactive
A passionate, creative leader.
Engineering Team
Five dedicated staff
A team with technical expertise ranging from data security to UI, mobile and analytics.
Ilya Kupershmidt
Founder & CEO
Illumina, NextBio, Agilent
A serial life science entrepreneur and challenge-driven leader.
Anatoly Volovik
Head of Product Management
Gett, SpeedDate, SFAA
A seasoned product expert and devoted consumer advocate.
Anna Arutiunova
Head of Communications
Aurora Prize, Foreign Policy, Google
Guardian of the brand voice and creative storyteller.
Kayla Kraich, PsyD
Director, Clinical Programs
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, UC Davis Medical Center, Loma Linda University
Behavioral health expert helping to develop tech for people with chronic conditions.
Arielle Radin
Director, Clinical Research
UCLA, NYU, Columbia
A rigorous clinical researcher and mind-body enthusiast.
Meredith Mangold
Lead Patient Advocate
Georgetown University, One Medical Group, Virginia Hospital Center
An empowered chronic illness advocate and professional patient.
Tiffany Jordan
Senior Manager, Health Programs
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, National MS Society, UCLA
A passionate patient advocate and believer in the power of connection.
Stas Udotov
Head of Design
D/Workz Interactive
A passionate, creative leader.
Engineering Team
Five dedicated staff
A team with technical expertise ranging from data security to UI, mobile and analytics.
Gali Advisors
Dr. Sid Sinha, MD
Gastroenterology, Global Health
Assistant Professor, Stanford
Andrew Rabinovich, PhD
AI & Deep Learning
Head of AI, Magic Leap
Jenna Benn Shersher
Patient Advocacy
Founder, CEO, Twistout Cancer
Irina Strigo, PhD
Medical Psychology
Associate Professor, UCSF
Andrew DiMichele
Digital Health, Technology
Cofounder of Omada Health, Columbia
We Collaborate with
Gali Health is expanding collaborations with leading medical centers and companies in the biomedical sphere.
Stanford
Gali Health is currently designing clinical studies with Stanford Hospital medical staff to monitor the impact using Gali has on the health of people with chronic diseases.
UCSF
We are working with UCSF to design clinical studies that monitor Gali’s impact on patients with chronic pain, stress and mental health-related conditions.
Gali Blog
- Aug 6 Artificially Intelligent Minds and Human Bodies: How AI Can Help Patient Communities Tackle Chronic Diseases Why AI is poised to help patient communities move beyond forum-like engagement toward actionable collective intelligence.
- Apr 25 Let’s Build Health Tech Solutions With Patients at Our Side Involving patients in every stage of design and development could help e-health products to succeed.
- Mar 14 Face It: How You Cope Actually Impacts Your Health Actively confronting your illness will help to improve both your physical and mental health.
- Mar 1 What You “Sign Up For” When You Do Not Sign Up For Chronic Illness Managing IBD transformed my lifestyle.
Ilya is a serial entrepreneur creating transformative products and businesses at the intersections of health, human genome and software. He believes that combining smart technology with real-world data, DNA information and community-derived insights can improve the lives of patients and help to develop novel, personalized therapies. He co-founded NextBio – a biotech company focused on applying large-scale patient and genomic data for therapeutic and clinical discoveries. NextBio was acquired by sequencing pioneer Illumina, where Ilya subsequently led the company’s software products and informatics strategy. Before that, Ilya was in charge of industry partnerships at a genomic software startup that helped scientists understand data coming out of the Human Genome Project (later acquired by Agilent). Ilya did his undergraduate work at UC San Diego and graduate work in large-scale genome applications at the Science for Life Labs/Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He currently serves on the board of several biotech companies. In his free time, Ilya loves to kitesurf and attend theater and music performances.
Having first-hand experience with chronic conditions and a deep understanding of the challenges they entail, Anatoly is pursuing a lifelong mission of building products that improve the quality of life for those who need it the most. Throughout his career Anatoly has been developing platforms that connect people to information, services and each other, from apps that facilitate online dating and finding optimal transportation to online classrooms where people from around the world can interact and learn. For more than 10 years, Anatoly has focused on bringing practical applications with simple and intuitive interfaces to users by trying to truly understand their needs. He relies on exceptional leadership, analytical and organizational skills to turn ideas into successful products. In his spare time, Anatoly rides his bike or cooks dinner for his friends.
Anna began her career in journalism writing and editing for Russia Profile Magazine in Moscow, following internships at Newsweek and Radio Liberty she pursued as an undergrad at UC Berkeley and a stint in a user support role at Google. Having worked her way up to Executive Editor at Russia Profile, she took a leading editorial position on the English news desk of Russia’s then-most prominent news agency RIA Novosti, where she developed an interest in the business side of content that lead her to pursue a master’s degree in digital publishing from New York University. She went on to help Foreign Policy and the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative shape their storytelling efforts, build new, engaged audiences and establish thought leadership. Anna is a published political columnist, lifestyle blogger and former radio talk show host. She enjoys travel, learning foreign languages and dancing around with her toddler.
Kayla Kraich, PsyD
Director, Clinical Programs
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, UC Davis Medical Center, Loma Linda University
Kayla is a licensed clinical psychologist, whose extensive experience providing psychological support to people with chronic medical conditions, combined with her personal experience living with IBD, make for a unique perspective on the immense burden of chronic illness. Kayla leverages this expertise to develop targeted interventions that empower people to live their best lives possible. Kayla received her doctorate from Loma Linda University, where she researched and designed integrative, interdisciplinary patient-centered behavioral health programs. Over the last 10 years she has also had the privilege of working closely with the IBD community in a variety of roles, including as education coordinator for the Northern California (NCA) chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. Kayla is enthusiastic about innovation in healthcare and is particularly interested in how medical, psychological, and digital health landscapes overlap in patient-driven care models.
For a long time, Arielle has focused her research on ways the body and brain are interconnected, especially within the context of immune-mediated chronic diseases. Through her long-term relationships with IBD patients enrolled in the longitudinal microbiome studies she coordinated as a clinical research coordinator within the Division of Gastroenterology at NYU’s School of Medicine, Arielle gained an appreciation for their clinical and psychological needs, inspiring her to pursue an academic career in Health Psychology. She earned her BA in Psychology from Columbia University and is now working on a Ph.D. at UCLA, where she researchers mind-body interactions in inflammatory chronic diseases. A gut-brain enthusiast, she loves trying all things probiotic as well as learning about how the microbiome modulates the effects of the immune system on the brain.
Meredith Mangold
Lead Patient Advocate
Georgetown University, One Medical Group, Virginia Hospital Center
While Meredith didn’t expect her life to be what it is, she now can’t imagine it any other way. She majored in Arabic as an undergrad at Georgetown University hoping to pursue a career in intercultural relations or national security, and would later be admitted to Georgetown Law School. However, her immune system had other plans: in late February 2011, she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease wherein the immune system attacks the large intestine. After spending over four months combined at the Georgetown Hospital’s Pediatric Ward, she returned to volunteer with the Child Life Program to help pediatric patients. Ever since, Meredith’s heart has been bound to healthcare. She has worked in primary care, personal fitness, advocacy groups and hospital settings. She is now most excited to be able to express her creativity to support her tribe of #ibdwarriors via both her patient advocacy and chronic illness awareness Instagram account @blondebowelbattlingbadass and her work with Gali Health. Meredith’s black lab/pittie mix Josie is her main source of giggles and snuggles throughout the day.
Tiffany Jordan
Senior Manager, Health Programs
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, National MS Society, UCLA
Tiffany has spent the majority of her career working in the non-profit sector with a focus on chronic illness. Her health education began in the home: her mother was diagnosed with primary-progressive MS when Tiffany was a toddler and a few years later her father was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. She knows firsthand the impact that chronic illness can have on a family. She earned her BA in history from UCLA and a short time later began working for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southern California Chapter within its Programs and Services department. Most recently, she worked for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation as the education manager covering California. Her speciality is developing and managing programs and services to improve the day-to-day lives of those affected by chronic illnesses.
