FAQs about Health Cohorts

We provide community forums to discuss current medical topics and health care issues.

Ideas and topics come from virtual listening sessions held each week. A program committee helps to clarify and catalog the ideas via subject matter and focus.

For topics that move to the next stage, workgroups (cohorts) are formed and members can then choose to join the Cohort via an brief online registration and application process.

Similar to a local community college model or online certification or degree program, the Cohort can “launch” once a minimum registration count is reached.

Once registration is full (about 6 to 8 participants), a Cohort becomes “active” and group collaboration (virtual, in-person, hybrid) begins.

Cohorts are “four week ad-hoc committee” environments that are carefully facilitated to ensure full participation. A “Cohort Participant Guide” is provided for needed structure and clarity of process.

At the end of the four weeks, the meetings stop, the homework is due: a “Cohort Paper” is put forth (co-authored by all participants) and published online for peer review.

Virtual and local in-person events may follow with the co-chairs of each Cohort invited to tell the story of their group work to invite adoption and spark wider publication and discussion.

Anyone, from anywhere, with membership access.

Health Cohorts is a USA based entity (Lake Oswego Oregon) with inquiries to join or get involved coming in from across Oregon but now arriving from across USA, also Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia.

Global Access ($0, lifetime)

Cohort Access ($120, per year)

Visionary Access ($1200, per year)

Sponsor Access (3 engagement tiers)

Participants can expect (a) to meet or e-meet and collaborate with people you may not know currently or would not normally associate with (b) to simultaneously experience support and challenge for your own viewpoints and beliefs (c) to start to see opportunity and create ways to broadcast your newfound thoughts or commitments.

Drawing from a growing membership base, interdisciplinary connections will begin as will dialogue between unlikely parties who might not have crossed paths otherwise.

Geographically speaking, Health Cohorts started as a USA based (Lake Oswego, Oregon) entity with a Pacific Northwest audience.

People & Populations

Conditions & Diseases

Patients & Advocates

Providers & Professionals

Industry & Policies

PROMOTE health

PREVENT disease

PROVIDE care

PRACTICE compassion

PRIORITIZE innovation

How you ask a question is just as important as what you ask. Here’s a suggested framework to follow:

“Specific to (CORE TOPIC) with an intentional look at (FOCUS AREA) what (IDEA, ISSUE, PROBLEM, DILEMMA, CIRCUMSTANCE, SITUATION, OPPORTUNITY) do you propose for a Cohort to take on?

(example) “Looking at (People & Populations) with goals to (Promote Health), obesity is recognized as a chronic disease and a significant threat to public health today (AACE, ACE, AMA) yet clinical guidelines for treatment and lifestyle interventions seemingly lack broad awareness or adoption in the United States. Why is that?”

Proposed Cohorts are ideas, opportunities, issues, limitations, pitfalls, and viewpoints that exist everywhere in health care and medicine today.

Open Cohorts have risen from the list of Proposed Cohorts, having met multilevel selection criteria. Now that an original idea is at the Open Cohort level (“open for registration”) a minimum number of signups are needed to actually form the ad-hoc group.

Active Cohorts are deemed to be “full” having met the necessary minimum number of and assembly of the registrants can finally occur.

2024 will see local in-person events in Oregon. Local events are planned for Portland, Salem, Gresham, Hillsboro, Bend.

Check the Member Events page to register.

2024 will see more locations added (across USA, across countries) when interest supports the expansion.

2024 will see virtual events for members of all levels (Global Access, Cohort Access, Visionary Access).

Check the Member Events page to register.

Academy

Book Club

Cohort

Discovery Roundtble

Forum

Special Event

Learn more at Member Programs.

First, join as a member (Global Access, Cohort Access, Visionary Access, Sponsor Access).

Careers: send in your bio to express interest. Propose a new position and role as you see it or be first in line when job postings appear.

Support Services: offerings to help or expand our mission reach are needed and are welcome.

Sponsorship: direct support is encouraged and a co-coordinated effort follows your investment.

Inspiration: share (in confidence, incognito or otherwise) your own (or others) personal health care stories or medical situations. A cohort may be proposed simply by such an inspirational story.