A Healthier WE is Dedicated to Addressing Critical Issues across the Health Ecosystem
Modern health systems are dynamic structures operating in a continuous state of change, influenced by multiple interrelated factors. Organizations at the leading edge of health delivery are aware that minimalist perspectives are insufficient for the task of integrating complex systems and services. From this realization, the Healthy America Ecosystem Model has been initiated as a key way of conceptualizing the health landscape and understanding its inherent mechanics.
This framing serves as the inspiration for A Healthier WE – a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to addressing critical issues across the health ecosystem. AHW has a six-year history of convening, collaborating, and committing stakeholders, stemming from a series of health conferences hosted by Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University School of Medicine, and A Healthier WE (AHW).
The recognition of the continuum of persistent challenges impacting health across the United States motivated AHW’s Founder/CEO, Phil Polakoff, MD, MEnvSc, MPH, Consulting Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, to launch an organization under the principle that “in these times, when ‘I’ is replaced with ‘We’, even illness becomes wellness”. At the ecosystem level, this entails holistic, integrated enterprises dealing with all sectors in society.
