EP 59: Designing Peer-to-Peer Health | Susannah Fox

How can peer to peer connection make a healthier society? Can
Amazon reviews give us fresh insight into our health? Why do
on-line patient communities represent an incredible untapped
resource in healthcare? How can a co-designed death give us a
fuller life? Susannah Fox will help us answer these questions! Fox
is a health and information technology researcher based in
Washington, DC. She is a former Chief Technology Officer for the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama
Administration, where she led an open data and innovation lab.
Prior to federal service, she was the entrepreneur-in-residence at
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For 14 years she directed the
health portfolio at the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project
where she helped define a new market at the intersection of health,
social media, and patient engagement. Fox currently serves on the
board of directors of Cambia Health Solutions of Portland, OR, and
Hive Networks of Cincinnati, OH. She is an advisor to Alladapt
Immunotherapeutics, Archangels, Article 27, Atlas of Caregiving,
Before Brands, Citizen, Equip Health, Faster Cures, and the
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at
Smithsonian Institution. Fox is a graduate of Wesleyan University
with a degree in anthropology. She is the mother of two children, a
caregiver for elders, and lives in Washington, DC, with her
husband, Eric Halperin.