What it takes to trust health innovation: A conversation with JAMA Network Editor in Chief Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, has a front-row seat to the tension at the heart of health innovation. As Editor in Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network, she oversees 13 journals that sit at the intersection of clinical medicine, public health, and emerging technology. In this episode, recorded live at the Civic Health Forum, she joins Unity Stoakes for a wide-ranging conversation about why AI enthusiasm without evidence is a problem, what a closed-door JAMA Summit on obesity revealed about the limits of the prevention paradigm, and why trust, not technology, is the real variable to watch. Her call to action: stop siloing, start building, and measure progress by whether health actually improves across the population, not just at the top.

This episode is part of StartUp Health's Civic Health Forum series, co-hosted with Fedcap and Digital Health Hub Foundation.

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