This episode is the first in a long while - about 1/2 a year. So there's a lot of catching up to do.
1) An update on the McGovern Center
2) An interview with Andrea Hult (a student at DWU - Non-Profit Admin major) and Kristy Zink (Academic Success and Career Services Coordinator) about why they love going to Uganda with AsOne Africa.
3) A delightful interview with David Aylward (see bio below) who campaigned for the senator in New Hampshire and has been deeply impacted by Sen. McGovern.
David K. Aylward
David has devoted his career in recent years to providing strategy and leadership to organizations and initiatives that improve population health and wellbeing for disadvantaged people. He has a 45-year history of using his skills and experience in innovation, startups, and coalition building to cause or exploit policy change and disruptive innovation. He is an expert on the intersection of US and global health with social innovation, public policy, communications and IT, finance, and related fields, particularly in understanding and designing the new complex coalitions and systems required for systemic transformation.
He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Colorado and a Senior Advisor the Farley Health Policy Center of the School of Medicine (https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/farleyhealthpolicycenter). He is focused on the design of systems to advance challenged communities by addressing systemic inequities and health disparities. The designs use a transformational, family-centered combination of next generation primary care fully integrated with necessary social services, intended to help people thrive while lowering the overall cost of health. Delivery is built on collaboration between community leaders, safety net clinical providers, and social service organizations and agencies, with a financial design emphasizing healthy outcomes, not sick care.
Prior to this work David led the design and startup of a national program to train Medical Assistants in person-centered primary care as the first Executive Director of the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (www.nimaa.org) founded by Community Health Center Inc. of Connecticut (www.chc1.com) and Salud Family Health Centers of Colorado (https://www.saludclinic.org/). He also served as a Senior Advisor to CHC on matters related to health system transformation. Prior to that he was a Senior Advisor to global charity Ashoka’s Health for All initiative where he helped design and lead global initiatives to increase the wellness/vitality of disadvantaged populations (not just provide illness care) in low-income countries. In addition to cutting edge “doorstep” primary health care using the latest digital solutions, these person-centered and community-based approaches included a major focus on full nourishment, sanitation, mental health, empowering people on these matters, and other key contributors to human well-being and capacity. www.ashoka.org. Until June 2016 he was the Executive Strategist of the iThrive Initiative (www.ithrivegames.org) in its design and start up. Its mission is to accelerate the development of digital games to strengthen the emotional capacity and skills of adolescents, and thus improve their ability to succeed in life and reduce later mental health disorders. He was the first Executive Director of the mHealth Alliance at the United Nations Foundation focused on improving global health systems in low resource areas with mobile ICT.
Prior to launching the mHealth Alliance, he was Chief Strategist of the national non-profit 100 organization COMCARE Emergency Response Alliance, which he founded in 1998. At COMCARE, David helped develop a new vision and interoperable architecture for US emergency response of all kinds, including medical, based on modern IT, broadband, and wireless. As Chief Counsel and Staff Dir
