Health Ecosystems with Dr. Mini Kahlon

A move to whole person health in America is going to take a shift of the entire health ecosystem. In this episode, Claudia chats with Dr. Mini Kahlon, the founding Vice Dean of Health Ecosystem at Dell Medical School, about health beyond the clinic, the role of “traditional medical care” and medical schools in moving towards whole person health, and why we need big, visionary goals for the health of people and communities. Relevant LinksDell Medicine “health beyond the clinic” website Results of loneliness study conducted by Factor HealthFor more on health impact of loneliness, see this reportAbout Our GuestDr. Maninder “Mini” Kahlon is a founding vice dean of Dell Medical School, where she develops innovations that advance health beyond the clinic. Kahlon is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health and the founder of Factor Health. The Factor Health laboratory develops programs that rapidly improve health in people’s lives, testing them through community-based trials. Kahlon was previously the executive director and chief information officer at the University of California San Francisco’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute. She is an award-winning technology leader with experience in industry and academic medicine, building consumer-facing and research-enabling tools. Kahlon is a behavioral and systems neuroscientist. She received her Ph.D. from UCSF and is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams or on LinkedIn.

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The Other 80 podcast — brought to you by Claudia Williams at UC Berkeley School of Public Health — hosts real, honest dialogue about the things that help keep people healthy beyond traditional medical care, like housing, social connections and food, and the cutting edge policies, research and programs supporting whole person health. Join former White House advisor, entrepreneur and host Claudia Williams for deep conversations with the innovators, implementers, researchers and policymakers bringing these new models to life. We’ll talk about what’s working, what’s not and how to move towards whole person health rapidly and equitably across the US.