Promoting Health Through Weight Loss
Harvard business professor Leslie John reports on studies providing financial and social incentives to get people to lose weight.
Harvard business professor Leslie John reports on studies providing financial and social incentives to get people to lose weight.
In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity.
Focusing on unmet needs, healthcare entrepreneurs provide their in-the-trenches perspectives on advancing medical technologies. Working to extend and enhance lives.
John Capek talks about ways we can improve the potential success for technologies in order to improve the delivery of healthcare over the next decade.
Representatives from various investment firms explain the medical innovation funding landscape, and advise early stage innovators with creative ways to navigate these complexities.
Park discusses how methods of efficiency developed in industries outside of health care need to be brought in to rework the health care industry.
Migliori emphasizes the need for change in the healthcare system in order for it to become more sustainable.
In this panel discussion, company executives discuss how they became entrepreneurs in science and medicine, and what their work entails.
This panel discussion focuses on healthcare delivery and how experts have sustained in delivering high-quality treatment.
Psychologist and innovator Dr. BJ Fogg discusses his model which outlines techniques to stop or decrease behaviors that are unhealthy or start or increase more healthful habits.
Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler discusses how we define the cultural norm for food consumption and what role our government should play in regulating food companies.
CDC Deputy Director for Policy and Communication Donald Shriber speaks about how the agency coordinates and manages its efforts and resources to respond to emerging threats to global health.
Dr. David Shern, CEO of Mental Health America, and Father Larry Snyder, President of Catholic Charities USA, discuss the potential of nonprofits as catalysts for innovation in health care reform.
Stanford Professor Robert Proctor presents scholarly research and advocates for pressure against the forces of the tobacco industry.