David Zuckerman has been leading the Healthcare Anchor Network since its launch in 2017 and serves as the president of the network. He is a national thought leader on the role of health systems as anchor institutions in building community wealth and inclusive economic development.

Zuckerman is the co-author of several reports that have helped propel forward the anchor mission movement, including Hospitals Aligned for Healthy Communities toolkit series. He is also the author of Hospitals Building Healthier Communities: Embracing the Anchor Mission and a contributor to Can Hospitals Heal America’s Communities. Zuckerman is the lead author of a National Academy of Medicine discussion paper, Building a Culture of Health at the Federal Level and a contributor to the 2020 Surgeon General’s Report on Community Health and Economic Prosperity. 

Zuckerman has been an invited speaker at key sector events to promote the anchor mission movement: World Health Organization, American Hospital Association, Association of Academic Health Centers, the National Academy of Medicine, American Organization of Nurse Executives and Modern Healthcare’s Leadership Summit.

Zuckerman previously served on the Board of Trustees for the Consumer Health Foundation from 2016-2021, including as Treasurer. In this role, he led the expansion of their place-based impact investing strategy.