Improving Health Outcomes Through Diversity with Andrea Henderson
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Healthcare is an industry that affects everyone, no matter your race, gender, and age. With every person needing healthcare access, having a diverse group of voices and minds both in clinics and in companies developing healthcare technologies is more important than ever. Andrea Henderson knows this and has made it her life’s mission to not only find these diverse voices, but also invest in technologies to improve healthcare for underrepresented groups. This week’s episode 108 of How Women Inspire Podcast is about improving health outcomes through diversity!
In this episode of How Women Inspire Podcast, Andrea Henderson is sharing the importance of diversity in healthcare and actionable steps you can take right now to ask yourself how you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
Andrea Henderson is the Partner in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, Diversity, and Board & CEO Practice Groups at DHR Global, a provider of executive search, leadership consulting, and emerging leader search solutions in more than 50 markets spanning 22 countries.. She is an executive talent strategist and people architect, and previously served as the Director of Partner Solutions and Executive Search at a career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented healthcare and life science leaders. Andrea is passionate about health equity and women's health.
Some of the talking points Julie and Andrea go over in this episode include:
- The need for diverse clinicians and medical professionals for the betterment of everyone’s health.
- Tithing one’s time and giving back to the community.
- Making investing more accessible to women hoping to help find solutions with limited resources.
- The importance of aligning one’s actions with their values.
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Chapters
1. Improving Health Outcomes Through Diversity with Andrea Henderson (00:00:00)
2. Andrea’s career as a talent and people strategist. (00:04:03)
3. The importance of diverse clinicians and healthcare professionals. (00:06:23)
4. Tithing your time to give back to the community. (00:10:41)
5. Investing in women-led startups for healthcare growth. (00:12:31)
6. Investing with limited resources. (00:15:31)
7. Demystifying investing and leadership opportunities for womento close the gender gap. (00:18:25)
8. Asking ‘how can I?’ instead of saying ‘I can’t’. (00:20:53)
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