Alternate title: Assessment BEFORE Plan
In this episode, Lalita and Kelly speak with Esther Johnston, MD, family physician and an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program. She currently serves as the Director of the Global Engagement Network for Primary Health Care (GEN-PHC), a polycentric collaborative of primary care academicians that aims to facilitate the development of educational pathways, data, policies, and programs needed to support robust, fit-for-purpose primary health care systems through partnership and collaboration.
The conversation ranges from decolonizing global health in a post-pandemic world to telehealth, broadband, and building family medicine globally, this episode explores just how similar the challenges of implementing interventions (technology or otherwise) are at home and abroad.

Links to publications mentioned in this episode:
1. King NB, Koski A. Defining global health as public health somewhereelse. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002172. https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/1/e002172

2. Burke G, Schellmann H. Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said. AP. Oct 26, 2024. https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14

3. Website: Global Engagement Network for Primary Health Care (GEN-PHC) https://globalhealthcenter.umn.edu/genphc