Health Choices. Knowledge + Behavior. Your Life Depends on It.

Healthcare decisions affect you and others. Complicated for everyone. Knowledge waiting to be implemented. Join this chat with Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz.

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The COVID pandemic highlights the impact of our choices about health and habits on ourselves and each other as well as the impact of others’ choices on us. Think crowding, masking, vaccinations, collaborative problem-solving. Our lives depend on the choices we and others make. Sometimes our choices have little impact; rather, policy, employers, community culture, work and home settings, travel have a more significant effect and seem remote from our personal choices. Clearly, it’s complicated.

Introducing Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz

My guest, Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz, a key note speaker, consultant, and researcher at the intersection of medicine and behavioral economics wrote a book, Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health that was just published. She is a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Miron-Shatz was Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s post-doc at Princeton University, and a lecturer at Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania. She is CEO of CureMyWay, an international health consulting firm whose clients include Johnson &…