Rick Lesaar

The intersection of health and communications; on strategies to make global health and development efforts more effective and more widely and fully understood.

UPDATES number one

November 17, 2016 by Rick Lesaar

Updates to earlier posts on the UN Secretary General, CVS and Taget’s ClearRX system, Apple’s ResearchKit, and a look at who’s engaging and who’s engaged on social media.

The Next UN Secretary General will have Little/No Background in Health

August 04, 2016 by Rick Lesaar

Like all of his or her predecessors, the next Secretary General of the UN will have little to no significant experience in global health. Is this a problem or a missed opportunity?