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The Other 80

April 22, 2024 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Screenshot from Derek Sivers' TED talk How to start a movement

Claudia Williams created The Other 80 podcast to talk about how medical care only accounts for 20% of health outcomes. The other 80% includes factors like food, housing, transportation options, social connection, etc. I was honored to be interviewed for episode #27, now available wherever you listen to podcasts. You can hear in my voice […]

Filed Under: Champions, Networkers, peer-to-peer health care, Seekers, Solvers Tagged With: #wearenotwaiting, Claudia Williams, Dana Lewis, Derek Sivers, Hugo Campos, John Costik, Open Notes, Patient-Led Research Collaborative, Rebel Health, Sara Riggare, Stanford Medicine X

Transforming research participation

October 18, 2023 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Close up picture of a dandelion

Below is a letter I wrote in response to Tania Simoncelli’s article, “From Bedside to Bench and Back,” (Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2023). Read all the responses here. Biomedical research has blind spots that can be reduced, as Tania Simoncelli writes, by “centering the largest stakeholders in medicine—the patients.” By focusing on rare […]

Filed Under: research issues, Solvers Tagged With: #wearenotwaiting, artificial intelligence, cancer, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, diabetes, personal science, Rare Disease, rare diseases, Rebel Health, Tania Simoncelli

Inventing the future

June 2, 2021 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Close up picture of a dandelion

If you want to meet the future faster, go out to the edges of your field of vision. Find out what pioneers and rebels are doing and learn from them. Sometimes that means taking a virtual helicopter ride up to the zenith of tech development, as I did recently, watching Dario Gil, SVP and Director […]

Filed Under: Champions, health data, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, policy issues, Solvers Tagged With: #wearenotwaiting, Amy Tenderich, Ben Eloff, Dario Gil, diabetes, diabetesmine, Hhs, IBM, Invent Health, kidney disease, KidneyX, Maja Vukovich

“Human stories really are what drive us…”

May 22, 2019 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Stanford Medicine X stage

The more we open access to the data, information, and tools people need to solve their own problems, the better. That’s the essential message of the research and consulting I’m engaged in these days, helping leaders to see the opportunities that spring, for example, from tapping into the zeitgeist of social platforms and new data […]

Filed Under: key people, peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns Tagged With: #wearenotwaiting, Dana Lewis, diabetes, Health Data, HopeLab Foundation, OpenAPS, teens, Vicky Rideout, Well Being Trust

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