The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
On Tuesday, the inaugural Civic Health Forum launches at Civic Hall in New York City for a half-day convening organized around one question: how do we keep people healthy before they enter the healthcare system?
The just-released agenda brings that throughline into sharp focus. Across five sessions, you'll hear from leaders shaping the science, systems, and capital behind prevention, including:
Susan Monarez, PhD, former Director of the CDC and founding Deputy Director of ARPA-H
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, Editor in Chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network
Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH, Chief AI Officer, Mt. Sinai Health System
Daniel Kraft, MD, Founder, NextMed Health, Digital.Health, & Continuum Health Ventures
Anaïs Rameau, MD, Director of New Technologies, Weill Cornell Medicine
Kevin Chen, MD, MHS, AVP of Design & Evaluation, NYC Health + Hospitals
Sara Holoubek, Founding Partner and Executive Advisory, Luminary Labs
Terry Huang, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy; Founder, Firefly Innovations
Nirav Shah, MD, Senior Scholar at Stanford University and Founder of Civic Stratum
The event pairs panels and discussions on the systems powering innovation, provider-led care redesign, and the convergence of AI and evidence in prevention with Innovator Spotlights from 10 founders building across our health moonshots, from cardiometabolic and caregiving to oral health, addiction, women's health, mental health, Alzheimer's, and access to care.
Co-hosted by Fedcap, DHHF, and StartUp Health.
Final hours for the INSIDER discount: Use code INSIDER at checkout for $50 tickets, a 75% savings off the standard price. Discount tickets are available online through Monday at 11:59pm ET. After that, tickets will be available at the door at full price.
The Forum is Tuesday. Now is the moment to join us.
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From a $435M longevity biotech raise in South San Francisco to insulin delivery in Switzerland to AI physiotherapy clinics scaling across the NHS to a personal digital twin platform in South Korea, this week's digital health funding spans continents and categories – with strong signals in scientific AI, precision cardiometabolic care, and healthcare workforce innovation, including a $15M raise for Civic Health Forum featured guest Ilant Health.
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In a wide-ranging community fireside chat, investor, thinker, and StartUp Health Impact Board member Esther Dyson made the case for limits as a feature, not a flaw, and pushed health innovators to ask harder questions about what they're actually building. And the conversation continues in person: Esther will be at Civic Health Forum on Tuesday.
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