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ER Doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health & Humanitarian Response | Historical Determinants of Public Health at Brown SPH | Member CFR | Emmy Award Winner🏆
Author, Hack Your Bureaucracy and Crisis Engineering
Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
Chad is the executive director of Project 2029
Making government work better for people and the planet.
Working at Recoding America to help states deliver better results by getting the right people, processes, and technology in place. Recovering government staffer: City of Detroit, State of Michigan, U.S. Treasury, White House.
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