What can I do to have the Biggest Impact?

I’ve been struggling with thinking about where I can have the biggest impact during COVID-19.

It’s a big question. What does it mean to have the “biggest impact”? What are some ways I could approach the question? What are the best tools and resources?

I’m Narath Carlile. I work as a general internist and primary care physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. I also lead Technology, Education and Clinical Health Informatics at the Brigham Educational Institute and I teach Informatics and Innovation at Harvard Medical School.

Join me in this video to explore the question of how to have the biggest impact:

In the video we’ll explore: (click on the links to jump directly to those chapters)

• Why this question is important

• How we can think about it systematically

• How we might use Systems Thinking to help answer the question

• What insights Systems modelling offers

• How to use the patient journey as a starting point in your thinking

• How to think about interventions

• How to build on your unique skills and experience to have the biggest impact.

Links to resources I mention in the video:

• Community Coronavirus Model

• Interventions: https://github.com/narath/covid-interventions/tree/master

• https://80000hours.org/articles/covid-19-what-should-you-do/

• https://helpwithcovid.com/

I hope the video and resources are helpful to you, and look forward to your comments.

As always, the views are my own and don’t represent the official positions of any of the organizations with which I am affiliated.

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