Recent HSI Events

• April 28, 2022: HSI Hybrid Seminar with Katie Stebbins

  Topic: Scaling the Economy of Nutrition Science Responsibly
   
  The economy of nutrition and wellness is booming into the trillions for entrepreneurs, influencers, and legacy corporations driven by breakthroughs in AI and “omic” sciences. However, a lack of FDA standards paired with a lack of nutrition science training for medical professionals leaves the public empty handed and adventuring independently onto the internet as citizen scientists. For many, the journey is expensive, and answers can be elusive. How does this emerging economy live up to its hype? How does the field gain accessibility for all incomes? What systems change is needed to add predictability and safety? And how do we create a better food system as a result?
   
  Katie Stebbins is the Executive Director of the Tufts Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute and an Innovator in Residence at the MIT Innovation Initiative. Katie was the inaugural Secretary for Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where she led state investment in advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, digital health, advanced materials, and robotics.
   

   

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• April 21, 2022: HSI Hybrid Seminar with Lauren Chava Rose

  Beyond the Benefits Package: Tools for Cultivating a Trauma-Informed Workplace

  This era of unprecedented chronic stress has impacted the entire healthcare industry, but managers are beginning to leave their jobs at a disproportionate rate. In this presentation, we will utilize a case study to illustrate this surprising trend, and we will consider the fact that a trauma-informed approach to workplace development can lead to better employee retention all around.

   

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• April 1, 2022: MIT Sloan Healthcare and BioInnovations Conference (SHBC) 2022

  Reimagining the Patient Journey: Where Can Technology Lead us?

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• March 17, 2022: HSI Seminar with Margo Edmunds

  Reinventing Innovation:  Strategic Models for the Common Good

  Complex problems like health care and climate change can’t and won’t be solved by simple, single-sector solutions. But multi-sector initiatives and systems thinking require different management skills and mindsets. This presentation will describe three examples of multi-sector initiatives - Continua Alliance, the Gravity Project, and the Multi-Solving Institute – whose leadership combines diverse resources across non-profit, government, industry, and philanthropic to drive transformation and sustainable change. 

  Margo Edmunds is a health policy entrepreneur and strategist who works at the intersection of Health IT, health systems transformation, and public health. She specializes in multi-sector collaborations to improve interoperability and address social and economic risks to health.  Currently, as Vice President at AcademyHealth, she leads two national strategic initiatives on workforce diversity and inclusion and serves on several advisory groups, including the Strategic Advisory Council for the Gravity Project, a national collaborative developing data standards for social determinants of health. She previously held positions at the University of California, San Francisco; the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and Booz Allen Hamilton. Her edited book on Consumer Informatics and Digital Health was published in February 2019 by Springer. Margo completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she formerly served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management. 

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• February 24, 2022: HSI Virtual Seminar with Peter Eckart

  An incomplete look at equity: one practitioner’s experience working towards health and human services transformation

  Peter Eckart is an interdependent consultant based in Chicago, whose local, state and national work focuses on nonprofit social services, learning and organizational development, and equity-based measurement. He provides subject matter expertise as well as organizational and program development services to nonprofits, foundations, government, and social good enterprises. Peter led a national program supporting community-based data sharing for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation until 2020.  He began his career working in community economic development and IT systems

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