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Shareef Ghanem

Managing Director

Shareef Ghanem provides due diligence and advisory support to financial sponsors investing in the healthcare sector as well as their portfolio companies.

His work focuses on assessing the policy, regulatory, reimbursement, and commercial considerations that may impact investment opportunities across the spectrum of provider, pharmacy, managed care, and digital health services.

Shareef helped create Avalere’s due diligence advisory services offerings before leaving the firm in 2016. Before rejoining Avalere in 2023, Shareef held various operating leadership roles in digital health, focused on value-based care enablement, health plan administration and cost containment, and employer-sponsored benefits.

Shareef holds a Master’s of Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in public health from The Johns Hopkins University.

Authored Content


In an eBook, Avalere experts analyze the spectrum of women’s health needs and research the coverage, care, and outcomes shaping women’s health services.

An Avalere analysis assessing differences in Medicare expenditures and utilization across 4 models provides a new perspective on the evolving physician affiliation model landscape.

In this installment of our women's health video series, Sarah Kellogg Neff, CEO of the Lactation Network, joins Avalere to explore the value of access to lactation services.

In this installment of our women's health video series, Avalere is joined by Jessica Bell van der Wal, co-Founder and CEO of Frame Fertility, for a discussion of the myths, challenges, and future surrounding family-forming care.

Avalere analysis reveals an opportunity to support more Medicare beneficiaries with hospice care, as evolving diagnoses and ALOS prompt reevaluation of program metrics

In the first installment of our women's health video series, Avalere sits down with Dr. Madhavi Vemireddy of caregiving platform Cleo to discuss the impact caregiving can have on one’s mental health.

The prevalence and cost of CVD make cardiology a strong candidate for value-based care. Various clinical and market trends present opportunities for continued uptake.

The FemTech industry is rapidly growing and evolving as health equity and women’s health research become a larger focus and target priority in the US.