Jacqueline von Edelberg created a striking installation on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, March 25. Each strip of cloth represents one child killed by a gun in the U.S. since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, 13,000 in all. The installation served as a backdrop for a rally commemorating the one year […]
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Get Social Health
Janet Kennedy recently hosted me on the Get Social Health podcast, which focuses on how social media is being used to help hospitals, clinicians, caregivers, and patients connect and engage. We discuss how Twitter hashtags can be like camp fires, where people gather to tell stories, and why I have empathy for people who don’t […]
When it comes to health, your community may be your superpower
“You may not know it, but you could have a superpower.” That’s the opening line of the video we released today on DocMikeEvans’s YouTube channel: Mike Heinrich and his amazing team at Reframe Health produced the storyboards and audio effects. This project was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Global Ideas Fund at CAF America. […]
Tapping into my superpower – you
Friends, I have a personal request. On Friday, December 8, Reframe Health Lab will release a video about peer health advice. It’s my best shot yet at inspiring people to go online not only for information, but also to connect with each other. It was an honor to work with Mike Evans, MD, and Wendy […]
I’m the New CTO of HHS
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 […]
What I’ve been working on
It’s been a busy few weeks and I’d love to share a few items in one post: I served as the emcee at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation‘s Data for Health report release event. I attempted to capture the spirit of the event in this Storify. Here’s a post I wrote about the Data for Health initiative: Imagining […]
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