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I’m the New CTO of HHS

May 28, 2015 By Susannah Fox 44 Comments

Kids holding up an American flag at the Freedom Classic 2015 by Zach Frailey

I am thrilled to share the news that I am the new Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Grateful for the opportunity to serve under the leadership of Secretary Burwell — truly an extraordinary person. Full post (originally appeared on HHS.gov): When I left the Pew Research Center to advise […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: Hhs, Pew Research Center, public service, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Quantified Self Public Health

May 12, 2015 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

Quantified Self Public Health is back! 150+ health geeks of many stripes will gather on Thursday, May 14, in San Diego to discuss how access to personal data could benefit individuals and society. It is an invite-only meeting (sorry!) but filled with voracious documentarians like Joyce Lee (read her Storify from last year) and, well, me (read […]

Filed Under: key people, participatory research, research issues Tagged With: Don Norman, home health care hacks, Ian Eslick, maker movement, public service, QSPH, Quantified Self

Quantified Self Public Health Symposium

April 6, 2014 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

Health Patch from Vital Connect

On April 3, I was part of  a symposium organized by Bryan Sivak, CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2; and Gary Wolf, Director, Quantified Self Labs, where I presented the Pew Research Center’s findings on tracking for health. I uploaded my remarks in a separate post — this one is more of a “notes […]

Filed Under: key people, participatory research, pt/doc co-care, pts as teachers, research issues Tagged With: Gary Wolf, Pew Research Center, public service, QSPH, Quantified Self

Public service researcher

May 1, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Vintage nurse recruitment poster: For your country's sake today. For your own sake tomorrow.

I think of myself as a public service researcher. The Pew Charitable Trusts and the California HealthCare Foundation provide the funds for the work I do and, in turn, I do everything I can to inject the findings into the public conversation: publish reports and data sets online, for free; talk to reporters and bloggers […]

Filed Under: participatory research, public Q&A, research issues, social media Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Research Center, public service

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