Center for Social Innovation

Published: July 01, 2006 Download  34 minutes, 15.7mb, recorded 2006-06-07

How do we keep people healthy without having it cost an arm and a leg? What role should technology play in the future of health care? As initiator of the eHealth Initiative and Leadership in Global Health Technology Initiative (LIGHT), Ticia Gerber is working across six continents to bridge the public, private, and social sectors. Host Tim Zak conducts an audio interview with her about what it means to create a dialogue on these questions between the developed and developing world. Gerber discusses the challenges associated with creating an electronic health information infrastructure to support better health and health care, as well as issues such as pandemics, bioterrorism, and infomatics. She also shares her experiences managing conflicting interests.

Ticia Gerber is vice president for public policy and international programs at the eHealth Initiative (eHI), an independent, nonprofit, multi-stakeholder consortium whose mission is to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care through information and information technology. She is responsible for directing the Leadership in Global Health Technology (LIGHT) Initiative whose work involves both developed and developing nations on six continents. Gerber is recognized as an expert on driving e-Health adoption and implementation policy in both the national and international community. She has been a domestic and international health liaison for eHI and its members with the U.S. Congress, and President George W. Bush’s cabinet and administration. She holds a master's of health science/health policy from Johns Hopkins University.