Post on 20-Apr-2022
Engineering for Better
Population Health
Guru Madhavan
GMadhavan@nae.edu @BioengineerGM
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Messy Problems
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A Hard and Soft and
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The New York Times
C Phelps, G Madhavan, R Rappuoli, R Colwell, H Fineberg, Vaccine, 2017
G Madhavan, C Phelps, R Rappuoli, Nature, 2017
C Phelps, G Madhavan, Value in Health, 2017
C Phelps, G Madhavan, Cost Effec and Res Alloc, 2018
G Madhavan, C Phelps, W. Rouse, R Rappuoli, PNAS, 2018
C Phelps, G Madhavan, Value in Health, 2019
Solutions
Systems
Strategies
Preamble, Mike Wilkins, 1987 | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Thank you
Photographs by Guru Madhavan
unless otherwise noted.
@BioengineerGM
GMadhavan@nae.edu