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The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and its global partners have unveiled the recipients of the prestigious 2023 Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards. Spanning over 50 countries and territories, this groundbreaking initiative is part of the NAM's Healthy Longevity Global Competition, committed to propelling cutting-edge research and entrepreneurship aimed at revolutionizing healthy aging. In its current cycle, the competition drew a staggering 1,100 applications worldwide, inviting individuals from diverse backgrounds to contribute innovative solutions for extending the human healthspan. The chosen 20 awardees, hailing from a wide array of disciplines, will each receive $50,000 USD in seed funding to propel their groundbreaking ideas towards transforming the future of aging and health.

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Discover the world of healthcare leadership, innovation, and transformation with the Clinical Changemakers podcast, hosted by Dr. Jono Hoogerbrug, an experienced General Practitioner and New Zealand’s recipient of the Commonwealth Funds' Harkness Fellowship where he was based at Stanford University. Join Dr. Hoogerbrug as he engages in enlightening conversations with healthcare leaders from around the world, delving deep into their wealth of expertise. Together, they explore a diverse array of topics, ranging from leadership and management to quality improvement in healthcare, innovative solutions for combatting climate change, insights into solving homelessness through advocacy and policy, equitable health system frameworks, the role of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT in healthcare, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, building effective teams, fostering digital innovation, and gaining entrepreneurial perspectives from Venture Capitalists. Become a changemaker in healthcare. Start by listening to Clinical Changemakers.

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HELIO’s Global Leaders and Innovators in Human & Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab (MED 285/HRP 285/SUSTAIN 345), hosted a special session on May 25, 2023, for the Stanford Community, featuring social entrepreneur Gary White and actor and water equity advocate Matt Damon.

Addressing the global water crisis through social entrepreneurship

‘The difference water can make’: Matt Damon and Gary White discuss clean water access

Whole health is physical, behavioral, spiritual, and socioeconomic well-being as defined by individuals, families, and communities. Whole health care is an interprofessional, team-based approach anchored in trusted relationships to promote well-being, prevent disease, and restore health. It aligns with a person's life mission, aspiration, and purpose. It shifts the focus from a reactive disease-oriented medical care system to one that prioritizes disease prevention, health, and well-being. It changes the health care conversation from "What’s wrong with you?" to "What matters to you?"

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Samueli Foundation, and the Whole Health Institute commissioned the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to establish a committee to provide guidance on how to fill gaps and create processes to accelerate the transformation to whole health care for veterans, both inside and outside the VA system, and the rest of the U.S. population. The resulting report presents findings and recommendations that provide a roadmap for improving health and well-being for veterans and the nation.

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In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Sara Singer, a professor of organizational behavior (by courtesy) at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a professor at Stanford School of Medicine, sits down with host and lecturer Matt Abrahams to discuss the role of open communication in high-performing teams.

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