In this two part episode, we sit down with Ploipailin Flynn, founding member of AI x Design, a global community and decentralized studio for critical and creative AI research & design.

In this conversation, we discuss why understanding how AI systems are built is crucial for creating better outcomes and why measuring the outcomes of AI in communities and tracking deployed models is essential. Ploi shares her expertise on how designing user interfaces for different stakeholders can facilitate feedback, uphold data rights and why involving outside organizations can help evaluate the fairness of AI systems, while also creating defensible positions on company's responsibility with AI.

In this episode, we speak with Colby Takeda, co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, a healthcare company working to empower community health workers and better address the social determinants of health. Colby is a former senior living executive and has dedicated most of his professional career to improving community well-being through population health management programs, policy change, community-based partnerships, and technology solutions, particularly around social drivers of health.

In this conversation, we discuss the importance of community health workers in addressing health disparities and social determinants of health. Colby shares the challenges and opportunities in the field of community health work, including the need for standardization and recognition of the profession and how Pear Suite has supported hundreds of community health workers integrate into the healthcare ecosystem.

Episode sponsored by: PolicyMap , the data platform that let's you easily measure inequities on multidimensions to understand the impact of health disease and solutions.

In this episode, we speak with Ray Mina, VP of Marketing at Freshpaint - the first privacy platform purpose built for healthcare. Ray is a serial marketing entrepreneur with over fifteen years of experience leading marketing and go-to-market functions across seven startups. Ray has led marketing and sales at ed-tech startup TreeRing, legal tech startup Lawyaw (acquired by Clio), and construction tech startup Fieldwire (acquired by Hilti).

In this conversation, we discusses the challenges and trends in healthcare marketing. Ray highlights the impact of privacy regulations on go-to-market strategies for digital health startups and emphasizes the importance of building trust with consumers. Ray also shares insights on marketing frameworks, the role of marketing in care delivery and the need for long-term commitment in the industry.

In this episode we discuss provider-led entrepreneurship, the impact of Roe v Wade on women’s health, building around regulatory minefields and practices to improve data privacy.

Cindy Adam, is the CEO and co-founder of Choix Health (pronounced "choice") Health. Choix Health is a venture backed telemedicine clinic that provides abortion care - as well as other reproductive & sexual healthcare services like emergency contraception & birth control.

This episode, we speak with Maggie McCullough, on how her organization PolicyMap has developed a platform that leverages social determinant of health (SDOH) data for better community insight. We discuss how SDOH data can be used to prevent ER visits of pediatric asthma attacks, measure inequities to understand the impact of health disease and solutions, develop synthetic populations, propel go-to-market advantages and the pros/cons of using open source data in AI models.

Maggie’s career in City, State and Federal government fueled her passion for making information easy-to-understand and actionable. That passion, along with an amazing team, enabled her to conceive of and launch PolicyMap in 2008. Maggie has a degree in Economics from St. Joseph’s University and a Master’s in Governmental Administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

This episode, we speak with Deonta Wortham, on how his organization RockHealth.org supports digital health innovators. RockHealth.org is ensuring that equitable principles are embedded in health technology by building the leadership, resource and community infrastructure in the ecosystem.

Deonta Wortham is Chief of Staff and Head of Strategy at RockHealth.org, where  he leads the strategic direction and integration of RockHealth.org’s  impact and organizational activities in collaboration with the  organization’s CEO, Board, Initiative Leads, and team members. Deonta  previously held portfolio investing, advisory, and field leadership  positions at New Profit, a national venture philanthropy fund. Academic  research and accelerator management positions at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. He has also served as a featured contributor  to +Acumen, has published research in the Stanford Social Innovation  Review, was a 2022 Aspen Ideas Health Fellow, and is an Advisory  Committee Member to Impala, a nonprofit intelligence platform. Deonta is  a graduate of Manhattan College, where he received a B.A. in  International Relations with minors in Economics and Philosophy.