Susannah Fox sees a revolution brewing - not in boardrooms, but in living rooms, hospital rooms, and online communities. She is the former Chief Technology Officer of the US Department of Health and Human Services, and a longtime advocate for peer-driven innovation. She's here to map the movement led by patients, survivors, and caregivers - and to show how tapping into their power isn't just the right thing to do. It's a competitive advantage.

About Susannah
Susannah Fox is a health and technology strategist whose life’s work has been to explore and map the terrain created by patients, survivors, and caregivers. Her book, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care (MIT Press, 2024), showcases how consumers are building up our collective capacity for better health and how the health care ecosystem can leverage the power of connection with those they serve. Fox is a former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama Administration, where she led an open data and innovation lab.

As an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation she built project teams to bring patient and caregiver insights into work of the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health. Fox directed the health portfolio at the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project where she researched the intersection of health, social media, and patient engagement and first coined the phrase peer-to-peer health care. Fox serves on the board of Cambia Health Solutions and advises organizations — big and small, nonprofit and for-profit — on how to navigate the intersection of health and technology.

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Filmed at Innovation Network Gathering | West Chester, PA, USA | October 2025

Credits:

• Event Production: Smith & Jones Innovation

• Direction & Speaker Support: Jeff Smith

• Production & Stage Management: Michelle Jones

• Stage Design & Lighting: Steve Harper | Indigo Design

• Video Capture: Armosa Studios

• Video Editing: Kyle Blackburn & Sigfried Seeliger

• Screen Assets & Video Engineer: Hunter Loveridge | Picture This

• Sound Engineer: George Koenig | Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts