When Larry Chu, the executive producer of Stanford Medicine X, asked me to lead a “master class” at the 2013 meeting, I thought, “No, I’m still a student, not a master!” But I took a deep breath and thought about what I love best about my work, what I feel compelled to share with my […]
Learning about PhotoVoice
At yesterday’s A Healthy America event, I met Yanique Redwood, President & CEO of the Consumer Health Foundation. In researching more about her work, I found that she uses a qualitative research method called PhotoVoice, described as “participatory photography for social change.” Check out some of the projects enabled by PhotoVoice: The Dirty Truth Campaign in Atlanta, […]
A Healthy America
The U.S. is facing a serious health care challenge. Nearly half (45%) of U.S. adults are living with at least one chronic condition and many more people are struggling to maintain a healthy weight. We are also presented with a set of opportunities: Clinicians continue to be a dominant source of health information, along with […]
Chicken soup for decision-makers
Half of all health searches in the U.S. are done on behalf of someone else. That’s been a core finding of the Pew Research Center’s health portfolio since 2000. We have called information the new chicken soup of the digital age, brought to the bedside by people who want to help. Now, in the social […]
The data-driven future of…
Read this quote from Owen Thomas’s piece about Jeff Bezos and his purchase of The Washington Post, but insert “health care” in place of “media”: In the tech world—the world where Bezos made his fortune—it’s taken for granted that one should use data about how people use a product to make that product better and […]
Resilience
The following essay appeared in The Washington Post magazine in a column that asks: “So much is contained in such small things. What holds meaning for you?” I wrote it as a tribute to my father’s resilience, which I hope to pass down to my children: I was 24 and still called Susy when my […]
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