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How GLP-1 Therapies Are Transforming Health Care and the Future of Care Delivery
While GLP-1–based therapies are expanding from diabetes treatment to broad multi-system care, their growing complexity is reshaping clinical collaboration, health system organization, and the ongoing challenge of making these transformative medications affordable and accessible.
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The Leadership Engine as a Map for Clinical Leadership Development
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, an integrated approach to developing clinical leadership and teamwork skills across all levels of healthcare teams is discussed.
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Can Addressing One Disease Transform Global Health?
HealthSpark, Episode 25: Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, reflects on why obesity is one of modern medicine's most complex challenges and how coordinated action across care delivery, public health, and industry can reduce its impact on patients, health systems, and economies worldwide.
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How Long Can Health Systems Afford to Sideline the Private Sector?
HealthSpark, Episode 24: Tisha Boatman, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Siemens Healthineers, reflects on how changing funding dynamics, shifting attitudes toward collaboration, and a more ecosystem‑oriented mindset are redefining the role of the private sector in health systems worldwide.
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Biomarkers and the Future of Medicine: Why Every Health Professional Needs to Understand Them
From diagnosis and risk prediction to treatment selection and drug development, biomarkers quietly power the precision and progress of modern medicine.
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Biomarkers and the Future of Medicine: Why Every Health Professional Needs to Understand Them
From diagnosis and risk prediction to treatment selection and drug development, biomarkers quietly power the precision and progress of modern medicine.
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When Patients are Hungry, Uninsured, and Scared, What Does High-Quality Care Look Like?
HealthSpark, Episode 23: Mallika Marshall, an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic and Revere Health Center, explores what it takes to deliver equitable, patient-centered care in the face of profound social and economic barriers.
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Why are Millions Dying from a Curable Disease?
HealthSpark, Episode 22: Rushdy Ahmad, Director of the Diagnostics Accelerator at Harvard's Wyss Institute, examines why curable diseases like tuberculosis still claim so many lives. He discusses what it will take across science, funding, and policy to get simple tests into the places where people need them most.
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Clinical Teaching Doesn't Need More Time, It Needs Better Design
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, design thinking is applied to make clinical teaching more intentional, learner-centered, and effective.
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Are Hospitals Trying to do too Much for too Many Patients?
HealthSpark, Episode 21: Mary Witkowski, Fellow at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness and a member of the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School, examines how shifting from "do everything" hospitals to condition‑focused care teams can improve outcomes, reduce waste, and create a better experience for both patients and clinicians.
