Is it possible to have a significant impact in healthcare or healthcare-adjacent fields without being or having been a clinician? I'm defining "significant" by having a pretty important position in a famous company I suppose, so as to potentially have an impact on a larger-scale. In my experience if you look at roles like Chair of the WHO or CDC, CEO of a Hospital System, CEO of a Biotech or Pharma or Health Insurance Company, people like Dr. Fauci or Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN, almost all of them have an MD, DO, or some sort of medical degree from another country.
I understand the prestige and amount of respect that having a medical degree garners, but as someone who was thinking they wanted to pursue medicine, and has since decided they're more interested in public health, healthcare policy, and digital health (aka fields adjacent to clinical medicine), is there a place for me in these industries? Specifically, if I have career ambitions to make it to the top of whatever area I work in?
While there are public health experts high-up in their field, they normally have a PhD. So is that what it takes then to reach these elite circles? I like public health for instance, but I don't want to be stuck doing clinical research with a Bachelor's or field work with an MPH forever.
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