A note of gratitude for joining our @Work Summit today. What a gift to see what previously only existed in my head and on paper brought to (virtual) life.That you made quick room in your schedule to share your insights and advice with our audience is truly appreciated by me personally and all of us at CNBC Events.
Dr. Ashish Jha
Dean, Brown University School of Public Health
Featured Topics
Fee Range
Please contact us for pricing
Dr. Ashish Jha
Featured Videos
Current: SPH Dean Ashish Jha at the OECD High-Level Policy Forum
Time 05:52
More Videos From Dr. Ashish Jha
Dr. Ashish Jha
Featured Keynote Programs
What Happens After the Pandemic?
What have we learned from COVID-19? What did the pandemic expose, and teach us, here and around the globe?
Is the US, the world, better prepared for future health crises?
● Can we, will we, ensure that when future outbreaks happen, it doesn’t lead to loss of lives and livelihoods? If yes, how?
● What is the responsibility of the private sector? The role of government? Our international obligations?
● What does history tell us about post-pandemic changes that shape societies?
The Iceberg of Rising Health Care Costs
(Because It Will)
● Runaway health care spending now threatens to sink our economy
o Eating into wage growth while ballooning the costs of overall worker compensation; bad for workers and businesses
o Swallowing state budgets, forcing deep cuts in other essential services and priorities
o Straining federal budget
● What’s driving these rising costs?
● Why do policymakers keep getting the solutions wrong?
● And what is the agenda for action?
○ What can policymakers do? What about businesses? Individuals?
Climate Change and Health
a Noxious Connection
Climate change – is often seen as an environmental problem, which of course it is. But, It is also the most urgent, overlooked threat to health.
* The connection is real, immediate, and deadly.
How climate change impacts health
* Drought =>> Famine =>> Migration =>> Disease spread
* More respiratory illness
* Heat-related illness
Solutions demand new connections between scientists and policy makers
* Beyond reducing carbon pollution, what should healthcare systems be doing?
Mitigation by healthcare systems – reducing their own footprint
Understanding how climate change is going to drive big impacts on population health
Building climate resilient healthcare systems
Building climate sensitive population health strategies.
The role of governments, businesses and non-profit organizations in solutions
Can Artificial Intelligence Make Us Healthier?
Artificial Intelligence and its Application to Medicine and Public Health
* What are the major tools of AI that might actually be useful? How? When? Where?
* What are the challenges of AI – to providers, patients, health care systems?
* What are the risks that are not being adequately understood or captured?
* The role of AI in transforming health and healthcare not just in the US but around the globe