Digital Frontiers in Public Health
Presented by the Ellison Medical Institute and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Digital Frontiers in Public Health gathered leaders with deep experience in health information, digital technology, and public health to galvanize recent progress in both the technology and the regulatory environment for collecting, sharing, and using health data.
BACKGROUND
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the crucial importance of data in monitoring and protecting public health. It also highlighted how far we have yet to go to appropriately leverage data for that purpose. As we have seen throughout the pandemic, the fragmented data infrastructure in the U.S. can stymie effective systemic responses and harm individual patients. Fragmentation and a lack of uniform standards limit the ability of patients to control their data, entrepreneurs to develop tech solutions, and governments to respond nimbly to population health needs.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
- PANEL 1
Architecture for health data at the federal level
Moderator
Michelle Williams
Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Panelists
David Brailer, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President & Chief Health Officer, Cigna
David Feinberg, MD
Chairman, Oracle Health
Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH
CEO, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
- PANEL 2
Architecture for health data at the state and local level
Moderator
Dr. David Agus
Founding Director & CEO, Ellison Medical Institute
Panelists
Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd
Director, LA County Department of Public Health
Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Programs & Partnerships, The California Endowment
Claudia Williams, MS
Digital Health Strategist and Former CEO, Manifest MedEx
Joshua Sharfstein, MD
Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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