Phillip Polakoff's Contact Details

Phillip Polakoff's Company Details

A Healthier WE

Berkeley, California, United States • 6 Employees
Health, Wellness & Fitness

Our organizing principle:"In these times, when ‘I' is replaced with ‘We', even illness becomes wellness."Stemming from a series of Rural West Conferences, hosted by Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West, a recognition of the panoply of persistent challenges impacting rural health across the Western United States serves as the inspiration for A Healthier WE – a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to addressing critical issues in rural health.A Healthier WE (AHW), founded by Phil Polakoff, MD, MEnvSc, MPH, Consulting Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, takes as its organizing principle that "in these times, when ‘I' is replaced with ‘We', even illness becomes wellness".Growing from the organization's grounding in the American West and expertise in rural health, coupled with its extensive experience with the particularities of systemic change, A Healthier WE is structured to leverage the many strengths of stakeholders in rural health and focus them on the field's most intractable problems.AHW recognizes the groundswell of support for an ambitious initiative of broad enough scope to frame and face the central issues that affect the viability of rural public health – and in turn, life in the rural American West as we know it.