Disruptive Innovations in Healthcare Delivery
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Session Description
How can we transform healthcare to address 21st century realities? Building off the disruptive innovations that Skoll-supported entrepreneurs have developed around the world, this session will explore a holistic vision of healthcare that redefines the Product, Place, Provider, and Payment of our current healthcare models.
Time & Location
Time:
11:45 - 13:00, Thursday, April 10, 2014
BST
Location:
SBS, Seminar 3
Speakers
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Speaker
Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty eight years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address the environmental health impacts related to toxic chemical exposure and climate change. Gary is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm (www.noharm.org), and Practice Greenhealth (www.practicegreenhealth.org). Both organizations were created to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and anchor institutions to support environmental health and resilience in the communities they serve. In 2013, he was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House. In 2015, Cohen was named a MacArthur Fellow and was a recipient of a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
