Do companies have a responsibility for the health consequences of their products? Should those consequences drive how a company designs its product or service to be used by customers? What are the tradeoffs?
Panelists:
Steve Downs is a co-founder at Building H, a project to build health into everyday life. Building H is growing a community of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, engineers and researchers who believe that we need to reimagine everyday life—how we eat, sleep, get from place to place, socialize and entertain ourselves—to be healthy by design. Steve is the primary developer of the Building H Index, a tool that rates and ranks popular companies in the entertainment, food, housing and transportation industries on the impacts of their products and services on the health and well-being of their customers. Steve is adjunct faculty at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University.
Thomas Goetz is a co-founder at Building H, is a journalist, entrepreneur, and author. He uses data and design to help people understand and navigate complicated issues in their world. Thomas is the co-founder of Iodine, an award-winning website that helps millions of people make sense of their health and medicines. In 2016, Iodine was acquired by GoodRx, America’s leading source for prescription drug savings, where he presently serves as chief of research. Thomas was previously the executive editor at WIRED, which he led to a dozen National Magazine Awards in as many years. He began his career as a reporter at the Village Voice and the Wall Street Journal. He currently writes the LaunchPad column for Inc. magazine.
Sara Singer, PhD, MBA, is a Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is Associate Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center in the Department of Medicine and Faculty Director of the Health Leadership, Organization, and Innovation Labs in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. She is affiliated faculty with Stanford Department of Health Policy, Clinical Excellence Research Center, Center for Innovation in Global Health, and Woods Institute for the Environment.
Luigi Zingales, PhD, has research interests that span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture. He co-developed the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Americans have toward their financial system. In addition to holding his position at Chicago Booth, Zingales is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute. In 2014 he was the President of the American Finance Association. He is the co-host of the podcast Capitalisn't.
Moderator:
Mario Macis, PhD, is a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He is also a member of the HBHI Leadership Team.
Conversations on the Business of Health Webinar Series
This event is part of a larger series on 'Conversations on the Business of Health,' which will be one-hour webinars that will engage leaders in business and academia. We will explore questions such as: Should companies invest in their employees’ health? Are companies responsible for the health consequences of their products? Will artificial intelligence actually advance health? How can business offer healthcare in novel settings?
Moderated by faculty members and jointly hosted by the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School, the School of Nursing, and the School of Medicine, the series is open to all. Indeed, we invite you to spread the word as we seek participants both inside and outside of Johns Hopkins, including the business world.
Seminars will be on a Friday from noon to 1 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
