Each month, What’s Next Health talks with leading thinkers like Daniel Kraft, BJ Fogg, danah boyd, and Sal Khan to inspire us all to think big about the future of health and health care.
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Our goal is simple—to challenge the way we think, stimulate new insight, and encourage you to share your ideas. ”
Leading Thinkers Explore Big Questions
Jessica Green
Jessica Green, founding director of the BioBE (Biology and the Built Environment Center), explores how good germs might lead to healthier buildings and healthier lives.
Sal Khan
Sal Khan, visionary founder of Khan Academy, talks about huge shifts in learning and knowledge sharing and what they mean for health and health care.
Jake Porway
How can big data help us solve big problems? Jake Porway, a data scientist and machine-learning enthusiast, talks about big data, a topic that is literally growing each day in its relevance to our work.
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danah boyd
How is the internet shaping our friendships, networks and how we get information? danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of internet friendship—explores conundrums of a networked society and what this all means for health.
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Daniel Kraft
Inventor, entrepreneur, and flight surgeon Daniel Kraft talks about how we can achieve "escape velocity" in health care.
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Future Conversations
- BJ Fogg, director of Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab, on: Motivation vs. Ability— Which Matters more in Long Term Change?
- Jay Parkinson, founder of Sherpaa, on: Is the Doctor In or Out? Navigating Innovation in Primary Care.
- Randy Jirtle, University of Bedfordshire, University of Wisconsin-Madison McArdle Laboratory, on: Epigenetics: Are You What Your Grandmother Ate for Breakfast?
- Keith Wailoo, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, on: A Historian Looks Ahead.
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Did one of our What's Next Health thinkers spark an "aha!" you'd like to share or do you have a thinker to suggest for the series? Email us or join the #WhatsNextHealth conversation on Twitter.
