Met with David and Eli at PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
- The pediatric health perspective provides an important prism as it differs from views of adult health in many significant ways:
- small improvements in child well-being can have significant, positive downstream impacts
- children are mostly very healthy and aren’t expected to die, so QALYs and DALYs aren’t as relevant
- social determinants (education, exposure to substance abuse) are significant
- News of Australia’s recent Cricket World Cup Victory has traveled far.
- Various US Federal and State government programs are starting to blur boundaries and be more flexible global budgeting so as to catch the less-well defined determinants of health, especially in Vermont, Oregon and Washington (Adverse Childhood Experience data sets and its relationship to toxic stress.
Dr. Rubin is an emerging leader in developing health system and public program innovation to meet the needs of high-risk populations of children. He is an active pediatric/primary care clinician, educator, and mentor for fellows and junior faculty interested in children’s health policy and public health.
Eli Lourie MD
Dr. Lourie has more than 7 years experience with clinical informatics leadership of Electronic Health Record ﴾EHR﴿ systems in both ambulatory and inpatient settings, EpicCare Ambulatory Certification, and is working towards a Masters in Biomedical Informatics. He served as the Medical Director of outpatient information services for the Crozer Keystone Health Network, an ambulatory network of over 50 multispecialty practices. He is active in the practice of Pediatrics at the Network’s pediatric clinic, both in direct patient care providing primary care for infants, children, and adolescents and as the supervising/attending physician for medical students and pediatric residents.