Getting health to the public means going beyond the academy.

Research can change minds; starting companies, consulting, and plain words change outcomes. I am a serial founder, have served in the c-suite of venture-backed companies, advised organizations navigating data, AI, and health, and I write for the public in the lay press.

Writing

Papers are how scientists talk to each other. These are for everyone else.

My public health origin story

I learned about medicine from that: The Wizard of Oz revealed

Sensible Medicine

“I'm not that kinda doc” is something I say often, usually when someone mistakes epidemiologist for dermatologist and eagerly rolls up their sleeves to get my opinion on a peculiar mole. I have to explain that I'm the kinda doc who is committed to creating the evidence that powers evidence-based medicine and effective public health.

I took it all very seriously. As a student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, I believed our first goal was to save lives, and that there was a hierarchy of knowledge and leaders in place to drive us toward the most actionable evidence. That is, I thought that until...

John's father as a young man in the tobacco fields, October 1969 — Dad in the field, where I later worked alongside him.

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Speaking

Evidence is only useful if people hear it. And I'm Southern, so I do like to talk.

Work with me

From health agencies to companies at the AI frontier: if your organization needs to know what the public needs, that is the job description. A few of the organizations I have collaborated with:

AWAlere Wellbeing

ACSAmerican Cancer Society

BPBloomberg Philanthropies

CGRCahill Gordon & Reindel

CSHCalifornia Smokers’ Helpline

EVEverytown for Gun Safety

GGoogle

GSKGSK

HFHopewell Foundation

GTCInstitute for Global Tobacco Control

KSMKeck School of Medicine

LCCLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

MDLMedeloop

MYOMyOSCE

OAIOpenAI

PFEPfizer

SFISanta Fe Institute

TMCThe Mondays Campaign

UWUniversity of Washington

XAIxAI (now SpaceX)

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