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Firefly Innovations Podcast Firefly Innovations at CUNY School of Public Health
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With host Jared Hendry, we explore the frontiers of innovation and illuminate solutions in public health. Jared sits down with entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and the leaders needed to create wide-spread systems change. This is a production of Firefly Innovations, an entrepreneurship incubator focused on social innovation in service of healthy communities and based in New York City at the CUNY Graduate School for Public Health and Health Policy.
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Social Impact Investing: Chris Walker, Social Innovations Director, Mercy Corps
Chris Walker is at the cutting edge of financial investments in organizations that create public health impact. As the Social Innovations Director at Mercy Corps, he works to scale up innovative, entrepreneurial solutions to development challenges. He also advises Mercy Corps’ Social Venture Fund, which invests in and accelerates impact-oriented, for-profit businesses.
Host, Jared Hendry discusses with Chris about the ups and downs of being a public health entrepreneur, what drives him to push forward the field of impact innovation and how non-profits, governments, and businesses are scaling innovation to save lives. -
Public Health Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Dr. Terry Huang, Founder, Firefly Innovations
Dr. Terry Huang is a leading researcher in obesity and chronic disease prevention and the founder of Firefly Innovations, the first-of-its-kind platform to combine public health and entrepreneurship. Dr. Huang is also the Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and the Co-Director of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center.
Firefly Innovations Podcast host, Jared Hendry, covers the community around Dr. Huang that contributed to his success in research and dives deeper into public health systems, Coronavirus, and how entrepreneurship can improve population well-being.