The Health Advocates are joined by Dr. Mark Rosenberg and Maria Thacker Goethe to learn about the Building Better Ancestors project, and their work on improving access to affordable care. Dr. Rosenberg and Maria help us understand public health problems, how we can use past learnings as framework to improve our future, and the steps that can lead us to solutions that promote health equity.

“And we've taken nine lessons from the eradication of smallpox, that we think make a really useful framework for thinking about diseases, — whether it's a new pandemic threat, whether it's a chronic disease, or I think it's useful even from the perspective of an individual patient,” says Dr. Rosenberg.

Among the Highlights in This Episode:

01:03- Steven and Zoe introduce today’s guests, Dr. Mark Rosenberg and Maria Thacker Goethe from the Center for Global Health Innovation

03:15- Dr. Rosenberg tells us about the Building Better Ancestors Project and shares the nine key lessons the Center for Global Health Innovation learned from the eradication of smallpox

10:13- Maria shares with Steven and Zoe how the nine lessons from smallpox play a part in the center’s mission of using innovation to achieve health equity

15:16- Dr. Rosenberg gives us insight into how the nine key lessons will impact the patient community and the general population

18:49- Maria shares her hopes that the nine lessons will be picked up by public health leaders on a local level and by innovator

20:24- Dr. Rosenberg shares a quote from his late friend and global health pioneer, that the source of all evil in the world is the belief that some lives are worth less than others

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Steven Newmark, Director of Policy at GHLF: snewmark@ghlf.orgZoe Rothblatt, Associate Director, Community Outreach at GHLF: zrothblatt@ghlf.org

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