POPULATION HEALTH

Population health is not about designing and executing narrowly defined clinical trials with very strict inclusion and exclusion criteria to determine if a drug or supplement can modify carefully controlled and selected disease symptoms. These types of trials are important and invaluable to the scientific community and allow scientists to better understand certain biochemical mechanisms of disease. However, the real human population is messy. Population health is about designing and executing clinical trials for the real world and for real people living normal lives. Population health is about changing disease incidence rates and epidemiological numbers.

The solutions to Population Health, are only as good as the number of people who can access and derive a benefit from them. That is why their development requires effective community engagement. This means soliciting community support, engaging the community in feedback, using the community's experiences to optimize protocols, and most importantly, building trust. To do so, I offer:

Solutions that people can understand
Technology that is accessible and affordable
Outcome measures that people can see and feel in themselves

My efforts to achieve these objectives involve:

Developing and expanding accessible blood testing technology for key, intervenable, chronic disease prodromes
Developing accessible and measurable biochemical intervention protocols for specific indications like dementia and autism
Partnering with online tracking systems that can be used by small and large community groups

The solution to improving Population Health outcomes is to put as much power as possible in the hands of everyday people and engage them in being part of the solution. I am fortunate to have been able to develop a unique set of skills and technologies for investigating and researching the biochemical basis of disease. However, to effectively apply these skills, I need to collaborate with other researchers who have their own unique skills which are complementary to my own. I am privileged to have had the opportunity to work with numerous leading researchers from around the world on both clinical and laboratory research studies regarding the biochemical basis of health and disease. Over the years, I have donated millions of dollars to foster academic collaborations on areas of health and disease. The results from these collaborations and my internally funded research programs form the basis of my population health strategy.