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New Paper on Reimagining Health & Flourishing in JAMA

A new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) authored by Tyler J. VanderWeele (Human Flourishing Program – Harvard), PhD, Eileen McNeely, PhD (SHINE – Harvard) ; Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH (Culture of Health – Harvard) explores how even more holistic measures of “well-being” from medicine, psychology, economics, sociology, and government, while come closer to capturing an individual’s complete well-being, still often fall short. The authors propose that in contrast to…

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Harvard Gazette | A Program to Give Workplace Well-being a Boost

What good is a sustainable environment if it leaves people unhappy, unhealthy, and broke? As the calls for sustainability practices grew louder in recent years, Eileen McNeely thought the conversations were ignoring that important point. Too close a focus on the environment — and on the starvation, disease, and heat stroke that climate change is expected to inflict — and you miss the idea that humans might actually flourish in…

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Announcing SHINE’s Executive Leadership Well-being Survey

SHINE’s research focuses on the health and well-being of the workplace.  While our research up to date has been mostly around the workforce – from office employees to  factory workers and the supply chain – we are adding a new cohort, CEOs and senior management. As noted by Dr. Eileen McNeely, while Harvard and others have conducted significant research on workplace well-being, the focus has been on employee well-being and little…

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Sourcing Journal | How Blockchain Could Benefit Levi’s Worker Well-Being Initiative

Levi Strauss & Co. is building on its five-year-old worker well-being program, underpinning new efforts with blockchain in order to enhance trust and transparency and reduce the time from data collection to review and response.Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a trio of stakeholders announced the program development that’s funded by an $800,000 grant awarded to blockchain consultancy ConSensys, civic think tank New America and the Sustainability and Health…

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New America, ConsenSys, and SHINE Awarded Federal Grant to Build Blockchain-Powered System to Track Health and Well-being of Factory Workers

Solution will be piloted with garment factory workers in Mexico in 2019 and 2020. Represents $800,000 collaboration supported by State Department, Levi Strauss Foundation, and ConsenSys. DAVOS, Switzerland – New America, ConsenSys, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health launched a two-year collaborative endeavor to develop a blockchain-based worker well-being system based on Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) Health and…

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