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Insigne Health is a for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members’ focus from “sickness” to “well-being” it could increase the overall health of its insured…

Three months into her job as secretary of health for Washington State in 1999-a position which had been vacant for nearly a year following the previous secretary’s resignation-Mary Selecky read a newspaper story that the state’s largest and…

The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, unleashed a 30-foot tsunami along Japan’s Pacific Coast that damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear complex. The crippled reactors leaked radiation into the sea…

A deep sense of foreboding filled Dr. James O’Connell and his team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP) in October 2014. The Boston mayor’s office had just condemned the 64-year-old bridge that provided the only passage to the…

As administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2013-2017), Gina McCarthy faced a daunting challenge: to write a technically airtight and legally defensible regulation, the Clean Power Plan, to reduce carbon pollution from existing power…

Dr. Jonathan Woodson faced more formidable challenges than most in his storied medical, public health, and military career, starting with multiple rotations in combat zones around the world. He subsequently took on ever more complicated assignments,…

As the Chief Administrative Officer of UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) and president of UMass Memorial (UMM) Community Hospitals, Douglas Brown had just received unanimous and enthusiastic approval to pursue his “Anchor Mission” project at…

In 2011, the Rhode Island (RI) legislature established the Commission on Health Equity and charged this group with writing a report on health disparities every two years. The case protagonist, Dr. Harper Avery, Director of Minority Health at the RI…

Four GlaxoSmithKline employees were accused of bribing Chinese health care workers to prescribe the company’s drugs. The accusations brought to light the questionable incentive structures of the Chinese health care system and the pressure on…

In February 2014, Michael Schrader, chief executive of Vaxess Technologies, Inc., was assessing the startup health care company’s 2014 marketing plan. On December 31st, 2013, Vaxess had obtained an exclusive license to a series of patents for a…