Karen DeSalvo
CEO & Health Policy Leader | Transforming Medicine & Public Health
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Dr. Karen DeSalvo is a nationally recognized expert working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and technology. As the former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.
S. Department of Health and Human Services, she led initiatives to modernize healthcare through digital innovation. DeSalvo's career has been dedicated to improving population health, with a focus on addressing social determinants and making care more accessible and equitable for underserved communities.
Her keynotes share insights on leveraging emerging technologies to build a healthier, more resilient future.
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How tech companies can help combat the pandemic and reshape public health
Karen DeSalvo, the chief health officer at Google, explains the partnership between big tech and public health in slowing the spread of COVID-19 -- and discusses a new contact tracing technology recently rolled out by Google and Apple that aims to ease the burden on health workers and provide scientists critical time to create a vaccine. (This virtual conversation, hosted by current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and head of TED Chris Anderson, was recorded on May 27, 2020.)
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