A Healthier Democracy
Alister Martin currently serves on the HHS Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education, providing strategic guidance to optimize outreach efforts for vulnerable patient communities. As Chief Executive Officer of A Healthier Democracy since October 2022 and a Research Faculty member with the Behavioral Insights Group at Harvard Kennedy School, Martin focuses on decision-making improvements in public health and policy. With an extensive background in medicine as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a former White House Fellow, Martin has also led initiatives aimed at voter registration through healthcare with VotER. Previous entrepreneurial experience includes co-founding Symbiosis A.I., a company leveraging machine learning to enhance clinical documentation. Martin's education includes a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
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A Healthier Democracy
A Healthier Democracy is a platform for collaboration and community organizing at the intersection of health and civic engagement that leverages the untapped power of healthcare workers and healthcare settings as the people and places where social change can emerge. We provide a home for healthcare workers, community organizers, and healthcare organizations under the shared vision that together we can address our nation’s pressing social issues through collaboration. We are unleashing the healthcare sector as a source for social good. We are creating A Healthier Democracy. Portfolio Organizations at Launch A Healthier Democracy is home to three high-impact national initiatives at launch. We believe our nation’s biggest and most complex challenges require innovative solutions leveraging health care settings and health care workers. Our centralized model enables us to quickly launch new initiatives drawing on deep expertise in healthcare organizing, creative communications, and marketing. Vot-ER (Vot-ER.org) - A nonpartisan voter registration movement that has organized over 26,000 healthcare providers and 700 healthcare sites to help non-urgent patients register to vote. Get Waivered (Getwaviered.com) - A program rooted in political organizing that is converting our nation’s ERs into the front door for opioid addiction and has helped over 5,000 clinicians receive their DEA-X waivers to treat patients with opioid addiction. GOTVax (GOTVax.org) - An initiative aimed at leveraging a get out the vote framework to deliver vaccines directly to vulnerable communities throughout Massachusetts via hyper-targeted vaccine pop up clinics. Action Collaboratives and Fiscal Sponsor A Healthier Democracy also hosts Action Collaboratives that allow healthcare organizers and groups of healthcare organizations to make progress toward solving complex challenges together. Our Fiscal sponsorship program helps social entrepreneurs navigate the winding path from vision to impact.