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Real Health: More Than Just a Number

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” It’s a common phrase, but something about it doesn’t sit well with me. First it makes me think, poor doctors—their presence is so unwelcome that we make up phrases about repelling them with fruit. Thinking about it a little more deeply, though, I see the real problem: [...]

By | 2019-06-24T20:02:51+00:00 June 24th, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real Health: More Than Just a Number

How does Equal Pay Correlate to a Better Life and Better Health?

This week the US “commemorated” Equal Pay Day, which isn’t a real holiday and shouldn’t be a celebration of anything. It is the day where women have to work into the next year to earn as much as men earned as of December 31st of the previous year. In other words, to make the same amount of [...]

By | 2019-04-08T20:07:17+00:00 April 8th, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How does Equal Pay Correlate to a Better Life and Better Health?

The Bounty of Choices, but Ugh to Health Insurance

“I have to keep thinking that if I didn’t live where I do, how I live, and have the ability to make these choices, what would my life look like and how would my be health be affected?”  As I spend countless hours figuring out which healthcare insurance provider to switch to, I have to [...]

By | 2019-03-21T01:43:30+00:00 March 21st, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Bounty of Choices, but Ugh to Health Insurance

Funding you Passion

How to make a living while doing what you love It’s a stereotype we’re all too familiar with: The Starving Artist. We picture him huddled close to a lone candle in a dingy apartment, rubbing his hands together for warmth, barely making enough money to pay the rent and feed himself and his equally downtrodden [...]

By | 2019-03-21T01:39:13+00:00 March 21st, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Funding you Passion

How can we improve innovation in developing countries?

Innovation is important to help the world grow and develop. In order to keep ideas and technology fresh and current, innovation must constantly be improved. The speed of innovation in the developed world seems to be at a breakneck speed, in every industry. But it seems as if innovation slows dramatically or stalls all together in developing countries, [...]

By | 2019-03-02T02:32:03+00:00 March 2nd, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How can we improve innovation in developing countries?

What I learned NOT attending the JPM Healthcare Conference

For the first time in 5 years, I did not attend the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. This annual mecca held the first week of January is one of the largest gatherings of healthcare professionals, investors, and start-up companies. My reasons for not attending were a mix of personal and professional, but mainly I [...]

By | 2019-03-02T02:25:52+00:00 March 2nd, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on What I learned NOT attending the JPM Healthcare Conference

Building a Community for Women’s Health Equity

As a leader in the Health Equity for Women movement, I am passionate about building a community around this, and me. The community that has supported HERHealthEQ has increased by 2000% in the last year. The amount of people generally talking about either women's equity or health equity has gotten louder, stronger, and more organized. As I become [...]

By | 2019-03-02T02:20:32+00:00 March 2nd, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Building a Community for Women’s Health Equity