Select Products, Programs, & Publications
[Report] Tiny Bits of Lead Everywhere
Artifact from: The Lead Data Initiative
In the Fall of 2018, a “seed grant” of $125,000 was given to Public Laboratory for Open Science and Technology (Public Lab) to explore the issue of lead poisoning through the lens of data and technology. Public Lab brought me on to execute on this over the course of 10 months.
The outputs of this seed grant is this collection of proposed projects. They vary in scope. They are programmatic in nature, pertaining to the work of government agencies (that is: these are not policy proposals) and written through the lens of data, technology, and innovation. Each proposed project is actionable, realistic, and validated by experts in the field. Where applicable, partners have been delineated.
[Slides] Lead Data Initiative: An Overview
Artifact from: The Lead Data Initiative
Includes background on the issue of lead; delineation of a few specific problems that underlie the challenges local governments face in doing their work; examples of data being used to help overcome these challenges; and a list of more concrete projects that would accelerate those efforts, spread those efforts, and address other problems that would buttress those efforts.
[Report] Proposal for Congress to Consider a LEAD Innovation Fund
Artifact from: The Lead Data Initiative
Published with the Center for American Progress, this proposes an allocation of $25 million to NSF for the creation of a fund to spur new technologies that would reduce the prohibitive cost of testing for lead.
[Blog] New Hope, Timeless Values: What Happened When HealthTech 4 Medicaid Went to Church
Artifact from: HealthBegins
A blog post reflecting on an event, a moment in a movement, and the values that should drive our work.
[Report] Barriers to Venture Capital Investments in Upstream and Community-based Care
Artifact from: Preventing Prevention
I interviewed 40 VCs, health tech entrepreneurs, health care executives, and industry experts and spent hours researching the intersections between health care, public health, and venture capital. What emerged was this multi-part report written in blog form.
[Blog] Growing Number of Communities are Using Data to Improve Policing and Criminal Justice
Artifact from: The White House OSTP
Example blog post I ghostwrote and lead clearance of that highlights two efforts we worked on: the Police Data Initiative and the Data Driven Justice Initiative.
[Syllabus] A 3-Month Innovation Program for the Social Sector
Artifact from: HHS Ignite: An Internal Innovation Accelerator for Gov’t Employees
This syllabus guided users through the experience of the three months, from the 3-day Boot Camp that kicks off their journey to the Shark Tank at the end.
[Blog] A 3-Day Innovation Boot Camp
Artifact from: HHS Ignite: An Internal Innovation Accelerator for Gov’t Employees
Selected teams begin their three months in the Accelerator in a 3-day Boot Camp which introduces them to some simple problem solving tools and techniques through lectures and workshops. Part training, part design sprint, methods used include those from: Lean Startup, Human Centered Design, and Design Thinking.
[Publication] The Impact of Innovation Initiatives in a Federal Government Agency
Artifact from: The HHS IDEA Lab
This report describes an approach undertaken by a large federal government agency to create and apply measures that assess the impact of employee participation in two innovation programs – an ideation testing incubator, known as the Ignite Accelerator, and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence employment initiative.
[Speech/Presentation] Consumer Facing Tech and Health Literacy, by invite from the Institute of Medicine
Artifact from: The HHS IDEA Lab
Read Holman, MPH, of the Department of Health and Human Services IDEA Lab presents The Federal Digital Strategy and Health Literacy: How HHS is Integrating Health Literacy Principles into the Federal Digital Strategy at the March 24, 2015 Roundtable on Health Literacy Workshop.