Roundtable:
At the Frontier of Policy: International Perspective on Policies for the Future of Health
(Social Policy and the Quality of Life and Wellbeing of Populations)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Public discourse on the rapid pace of automation has focused for the most part on the convergence of technology and data and its potential effects on occupations and work as we understand it today. In the health sector, there is a paradigm shift in how data science and technology can enable or hinder individuals' ability to take their health in their hands. The complexity of information and the fundamental nature of establishing evidence when it comes to clinical and health outcomes, underscores the urgency to design policies that address social and cultural biases and do not amplify them.
This APPAM interdisciplinary roundtable of experts in policy, social statistics, public health, and economics will use complementary perspectives on the future of the health sector to focus on the changing nature of expertise and consider how policy design and evaluation can adapt to the new technology environment.
Roundtable participants from diverse areas of healthcare, policy and analytics, and methodology will share case studies and comparative perspectives from Canada and the US and discuss what policies might be necessary to enable a future of health that truly advances wellbeing without replicating failures of the past.
This discussion of this roundtable will focus in three key areas for the future of health and wellbeing: 1) technology and data to achieve health beyond healthcare; 2) multidisciplinary knowledge capital to truly achieve health across all policies; and 3) workforce development and training -- what are the roles and skills needed to achieve the future of health?
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