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Urvashi Bhatnagar: The Intersection of Innovation, Health & Sustainability


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As a healthcare executive with experience across multiple areas of expertise, including population health, physical therapy and business, Urvashi Bhatnagar shares her passion for incorporating sustainability in all that we do. From the beginning of product creation and design through end of life, there are a myriad of opportunities to make decisions that not only support our environment but support human health. The ideas presented in her new book written with co-author Paul Anastas, The Sustainability Scorecard: How To Implement And Profit From Unexpected Solutions, can be applied to any industry because of the underlying messages of innovation and performance. Urvashi discusses how we must expand our definition of performance beyond functionality to include health. She also explains how to create ideal metrics that serve you in the short-term and long-term, while also addressing keys to change management and encouraging positive behavioral changes within an organization or population. Tune in to hear Urvashi’s bold journey to eliminate the silos impeding innovation and health within the realm of sustainability and healthcare.

 

About Urvashi Bhatnagar

Urvashi Bhatnagar is a healthcare executive whose career spans clinical care in PM&R, published research, advocacy and strategy and operations consulting for leading healthcare organizations. As a mission-driven population-health and sustainability expert, she has over fifteen years of healthcare leadership experience working with clients to bring new and innovative solutions to market that advance access and delivery of care, advance health outcomes and leading population health portfolios for leading health systems to underserved communities, and create data-driven approaches to advancing health equity. 

Bhatnagar holds an MBA from Yale University and a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Boston University. She is a Certified Clinical Instructor for DPT students and has served as faculty during the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2021 and has served as an invited speaker at the United Nations in 2020. She believes global wellness can be achieved through sustained and intentional investment in products and processes that are designed to be inherently sustainable and capturing value from the triple bottom line advantages that sustainability offers. Along with Paul Anastas, Bhatnagar is co-author of the new book The Sustainability Scorecard: How To Implement And Profit From Unexpected Solutions. 

 

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Linked-In: @UrvashiBhatnagar

Order Her New Book, The Sustainability Scorecard

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