Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
- Health Economist
- Advisor to Organizations at the Intersection of Health, Technology and People
Speaker Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$10,000 - $15,000
Virtual Fee:
$5,000 - $10,000
Travels From
Pennsylvania
Healthcare Rap: 2026 Predictions with Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Amy Heymans
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Speaker Biography
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist, advisor and trend-weaver to organizations focused on the intersection of health, technology and people. Jane founded THINK-Health after working with health care consultancies in the US and Europe. Jane’s clients span the health/care ecosystem: technology, pharma and life sciences, providers, plans, retail, financial services, consumer electronics and FMCG. She founded the Health Populi blog in 2007.
Jane advises on strategy and health care futures via environmental analysis, scenario and strategic planning, and health policy analysis. Jane is a frequent speaker and contributor to many publications, and is often quoted as an expert on the health/care ecosystem.
Jane holds an MA (Economics) and MHSA (Public Health) from the University of Michigan. Jane holds passports as a citizen of both the United States and Italy/the European Union, splitting time between Philadelphia and Brussels.
Among her social media kudos, Jane and Health Populi have been named…
- A top 50 blog in public health, FeedSpot, August 2025
- A top 25 health policy blog, FeedSpot, February 2025
- A top voice in consumer-centered health, Healthcare Rap, April 2025
- One of the top 15 women in medicine blogs to follow in 2025, FeedSpot, January 2025
- One of the top 49 healthcare technology voices on LinkedIn, November 2024
- One of top 200 Healthtech Exponentialists (#5 of 200/#1 woman), Zallud, March 2024
- One of the 100 Best Health Blogs to Follow in 2024, Feedspot, January 2024
- One of 15 Best Women in Medicine Websites, Feedspot, July 2023
- A Top 45 Best Digital Health Influencer, Digital Health Wire, May 2023
- The 2020 Blog of the Year (Individual), Medigy HITMC Award, September 2022
- 1 of 10 Biggest Influencers in Digital Pharma, Pharmaceutical Technology, February 2021
- A Top 100 Most Influential Economists in the World, May 2020
- A HIMSS Social Media Ambassador, February 2019 (6 years running)
- 1 of 40 Healthcare Transformers by Medical Marketing & Media, January 2016
- A Top 41 Health-Oriented Social Media Influencers, Klick Health, May 2015
Follow Jane on LinkedIn with some 225,000 other followers. She is @healthythinker on Twitter and @HealthyThinkerJSK on BlueSky. See more on Jane at the Health Populi blog.
Jane’s latest book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds, was published in September 2020. The book tracks the collective shock of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. health consumers, the accelerated growth of the home as health hub, adoption of self-care, and greater political will supporting a new social contract for health care in America.
Jane’s book, HealthConsuming™: From Health Consumers to Health Citizens, was published in May 2019. Jane connects the dots between patients-as- payors, the Amazon Prime-ing of consumers, digital health innovations that engage people in self-care, and peoples’ growing sense of health citizenship. The book was chosen for Gary’s Book Club at CES 2020 as one of the top nine must-read books in 2020 by Gary Shapiro, CEO and President of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) which annually convenes the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Jane has also contributed chapters in many books and is often-quoted in national and trade publications. Jane’s chapter on “The New DIY Health Consumer” was published in Participatory Healthcare: A Person Centered Approach to Healthcare Transformation, published by Taylor & Francis Group in August 2016.
Jane also co-authored the chapter “Old Media to New in Health: from Information to Interactivity,” with healthcare journalist Michael Millenson, in Information Technology for Patient Empowerment in Healthcare, published by DeGruyter in March 2015.
This followed up Jane’s chapter on “Patients and Personal Health IT in the Era of Accountable Care” in the HIMSS’ book, Engage! Transforming Healthcare through Digital Patient Engagement, published by HIMSS in March 2013.
GLP-1s: Re-Shaping the DNA of Everyday Living
The hockey-stick market growth and consumer adoption of GLP-1s for weight loss has dramatically impacted health care delivery and financing – as well as re-shaping markets and life-flows beyond medicine. Retail and grocery store, food systems and consumer goods, hospitality and the travel industry, and workplaces are feeling the effects of the cultural force of GLP-1s as a result of consumers’ demand for and use of semaglutides. Jane covers the driving forces and changing landscape of everyday living under the influence of GLP-1s and implications for attendees.
The Patient-As-Consumer: All Health/Care is Retail
In this talk, Jane addresses the patient as medical bill and health care payer, as out-of-pocket costs increase and patients lose patience with the U.S. health care system. As household budgets get focused in the ongoing inflationary era where kitchen table discussions try to balance the costs of housing, energy, and food, personal health care spending feels like “retail.” Jane discusses the driving forces re-shaping patients and consumers and implications for health care ecosystem stakeholders from hospitals to physician practices, pharma and med-tech companies and, retail health (pharmacy, grocery stores, among others). Jane will distill implications for attendees on the all health at retail phenomenon.
The Future of the Patient, 2030
Jane has developed scenarios in her scenario planning work on the Future of the Patient in 2030, examining certainties, uncertainties, and wild cards that will shape who patients are in 2030. The key driving forces detailed include AI, GLP-1s and direct-to-patient programs, and home economics/household spending in the ongoing inflationary era. Jane will distill implications for attendees.
