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Reflections from HLTH Europe
Robert’s initial reflections after HLTH Europe with the Verily team, following conversations with dozens of companies across the EU healthcare and life sciences space.
Watch on LinkedIn →Thought Pieces
Robert writes on genomic data as a strategic asset, the mechanics and politics of cross-border data sharing, and what biosecurity infrastructure actually requires in order to work.
Systemizing Innovation at X, The Moonshot Factory
On the balance a moonshot engine has to strike between unconstrained creativity, disciplined planning, and ecosystem support — and why improving the odds on radical breakthroughs is worth attempting even though they stay inherently messy.
Read on LinkedIn →Jul 15, 2026The Real Bottleneck in Genomics Is No Longer Sequencing
As sequencing gets faster, the constraint moves to processing and insight. Why the “Renaissance workshop” model of artisanal scripts on local infrastructure does not scale, and what a precision health platform has to automate instead.
Read on LinkedIn →Apr 21, 2026Data Governance as an Accelerator, Not a Brake
On Verily Health’s partnership with H2O and the European Health Data Space — the argument that a high bar for data governance catalyses smarter, more trustworthy technology rather than slowing it down.
Read on LinkedIn →Apr 3, 2026The Curse of Prevention
Reflections on Dr. Greg Poland’s World Vaccine Congress keynote: when prevention works it becomes invisible, cultural amnesia sets in, and the silence of the iron lung becomes the loudest proof of success.
Read on LinkedIn →Feb 13, 2026The Economic Imperative for Healthcare Renewal
Notes from a Canadian Club Toronto session on healthcare demand outstripping population growth while already consuming more than half of many governments’ budgets.
Read on LinkedIn →Sep 22, 2025Wastewater Surveillance Beyond Public Health
Takeaways from GLOWACON at Expo 2025 Osaka on the widening role of wastewater and environmental surveillance, and the momentum behind it as shared infrastructure.
Read on LinkedIn →Mar 13, 2025A European Wastewater Pathogen Monitoring Network
Announcing the Human Genomics paper on using aircraft and airport wastewater to build a cross-national surveillance network, with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
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