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Disruptors at Work: An Integrated Care PodcastAuthor: Cummings Graduate Institute
Disruptors at Work: An Integrated Care Podcast features discussions among healthcare subject matter experts, integrated care providers, and patients brought to you by Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies (CGI). CGI is focused on moving the needle of healthcare integration forward through advanced research, education, and training. Our vision is to improve the way the world experiences healthcare by raising awareness of what integration is, and best practices for disrupting antiquated models of care delivery. Language: en-us Genres: Health & Fitness Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Designing Care With People Instead of For Them
Episode 3
Monday, 2 March, 2026
In the third episode of season 5, of Disruptors at Work: An Integrated Care Podcast, special host Dr. Cara English, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Academic Officer (CAO) of Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies (CGI), sits down with Christa Haanstra, Founder and Managing Director of 4C Strategy, for a conversation on meaningful engagement and co-design in healthcare. Drawing from real-world experience, the conversation explores what leads organizations toward meaningful engagement, what co-design looks like in practice, and why it remains underused despite strong evidence. The episode discusses common barriers, practical ways to move past them, and how education and training can help build healthcare systems that genuinely center patients, families, and communities.About the Podcast Guests:Dr. Cara English, DBH, is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Academic Officer of Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies (CGI) and Founder of Terra’s Tribe, a maternal mental health advocacy organization in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. English spearheaded a perinatal behavioral health integration project at Willow Birth Center from 2016 to 2020 that received international acclaim through the publication of outcomes in the International Journal of Integrated Care. Dr. English served as Vice-President of the Postpartum Support International – Arizona Chapter Founding Board of Directors and co-chaired the Education and Legislative Advocacy Committees. She currently serves on the Maternal Mortality Review Program and the Maternal Health Taskforce for the State of Arizona. She served as one of three Arizonan 2020 Mom Nonprofit Policy Fellows in 2021. For her work to establish Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies, Cara was awarded the Psyche Award from the Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foundation in 2018 and is more recently the recipient of the 2022 Sierra Tucson Compassion Recognition for her work to improve perinatal mental health integration in Arizona.Christa Haanstra, with over 25 years of experience as a senior healthcare leader, Christa Haanstra is the Founder and Managing Director of 4C Strategy group, a company dedicated to advancing meaningful change in healthcare by partnering with organizations to ensure lived experience of patients, residents, clients and caregivers are central to decision making. She thrives when bringing together groups of people with a shared purpose to achieve a common goal. Christa holds a degree from the University of Ottawa, a from Seneca College and is an Executive Scholar in Non-Profit Management from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Christa has won numerous awards and recognition for her strategic communication, branding, social media and patient and caregiver engagement work.
