Meet Linda Riddell MS VP Strategic Initiatives @ValidationInst

On this episode of PopHealth Week Fred and Gregg chat with Linda K. Riddell, MS, Vice President Strategic Initiatives - Validation Institute an independent 3rd party that peer reviews outcome measures for member companies. An epidemiologist, specializing in poverty and social-economic status issues and founder of 'Gettin' By'.

Riddell dedicates her career to helping clients measure, understand, and improve health especially for low-income and disadvantaged people. Riddell is the Chief Data Scientist for the Validation Institute. In this capacity, she works with a wide range of health and wellness program vendors to measure their results. The Institute seeks to promote cost-effective, successful, high-impact programs and, in turn, make everyone’s health care dollars go further. 

Linda is also the founder of Health Economy, LLC, focusing on health policy and health data analysis. Her clients range from state governments to private insurers to start-up technology companies. Linda is a population health scientist, poverty educator and independent validator with 30 years’ experience in health care, public and private health insurance, and health policy.

She specializes in measuring outcomes for health and wellness programs, such as coaching, behavior incentives, and novel interventions. We discuss the effects of scarcity on our brains, Linda created a unique, experiential game in 2018 where players experience for themselves the brain changes that occur in poverty. Gettin' By is meant for people whose work affects those in poverty -- such as teachers, legislators, and medical care providers.

After playing the game, participants learn about how poverty changes the brain and how they can take this into account in their work.

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