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🚨 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦! 🚨 🎙 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟯𝟱: 𝗗𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆, 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞'𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 In this episode, we speak with Dr Cosima G., Chief Product Officer at Our Future Health UK, former Deputy Director at NHS Test & Trace. Cosima has built a career at the intersection of product management and healthcare, and her core insight is that the two disciplines are almost polar opposites — which makes reconciling them both harder and more valuable than most people realise. 🔥 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀: 🧠 The human factors lens she couldn't unsee — studying experimental psychology and human factors design made clinical systems feel fundamentally broken, and that realisation set her on a completely different path 🌉 The Singularity University pivot — a friend's visit when she had the flu led to an application with a five-day deadline, six weeks at NASA Ames, and an entirely new career in Silicon Valley 🧪 The clinical product market fit problem at Karius — a $2,000 test that detects 1,000 pathogens took years to find its real use case, not in sepsis but in immunocompromised patients where the stakes are high 🦠 Leading LAMP testing at Test & Trace — building toward 10 million tests a day by Christmas, government working at startup pace alongside industry, pharma, military, and consulting 💬 𝘐𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵. 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 — 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘦. 🎧 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 & 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵: 🎧 Spotify - https://lnkd.in/eEu7ZZHB ▶️ YouTube - https://lnkd.in/edUHBmGy 🗞️ Substack - https://lnkd.in/eYRQ28d2 #OutOfProgramme #ProductManagement #HealthTech #CareerChange #NHS #DigitalHealth #OurFutureHealth #CliniciansInTech #TestAndTrace #NHSInnovation