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Workplace Wellness Lab delivers leading insights, ideas and information on wellness, health management, and healthy living.

Our goal is simple: Workplace Wellness Lab provides regular and better information as an important path to create healthy individual outcomes, while helping change health care in America.

By connecting the audiences that matter – consultants, corporate executives, policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, customers, and more – we establish a positive, substantive, and influential voice within the wellness industry that makes the case that:

    • Left unchecked, current trends in health spend and outcomes are unsustainable.
    • Given that half the healthcare dollars in this country are incurred by employers, well-executed preventive care health management programs in the worksite are clearly enduring and valuable, helping drive improved workplace environments and individual outcomes.
    • Industry coherence around private sector innovation to drive effective health management programs is economically vital, given what’s possible in a spend category that is arguably one of the greatest challenges in America today.

Workplace Wellness Lab comes at this challenge principally from the employer point of view: What are the credible and demonstrated best practices in preventive care to structure programs that have an enduring impact? How can the impact be made explicit, as something that is both the right thing to do and a proactive business initiative that lowers the cost of care, as experienced by both employers and employees?

And Workplace Wellness Lab goes beyond the workplace. It’s a robust platform filled with ideas and insights from those that influence how employers think about this opportunity: research organizations, non-profits, think tanks and more.

From an editorial point of view, great ideas can come from anywhere. With that philosophy in mind, we will combine our own original content with other content across the web. We organize the content, with a view to making it as simple and useful as possible.

All content will be sourced. If we found it somewhere, we’ll tell you where we got — and how to get to that site yourself.

We also welcome your comments — criticisms, ideas, and, yes, we take compliments, too! Have a thought of what you’d like to see — or see something you think others should know — drop us a line.

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Dr. Marc Hurlbert, BCRF Chief Mission Officer

Wellness Works Conversations: Where leading thinkers, practitioners and experts discuss the ideas that drive workplace wellness, health management, and healthy living. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we spoke with Dr. Marc Hurlbert, Breast Cancer Research Foundation. To hear more from BCRF, you can subscribe to BCRF Conversations on iTunes or Google Play.

Usually when we consider workplace wellness programs, we think of the activities – biometric screenings, proper eating, staying active – that through plan design and an organized approach can help employees either stay or get healthy – reducing their disease risk and increasing their productivity and quality of life.

But what about in helping address the most common cancer in women worldwide and second leading cause of cancer death in American women, exceeded only by lung cancer? What about breast cancer?

·      What role can wellness programs play in either breast cancer prevention or with the recovery stage?
·      How active should workplaces be?
·      And what obstacles might prevent such action?

Dr. Marc Hurlbert is Chief Mission Officer of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, overseeing the foundation's global research grants program and a nearly $50 million annual research-granting budget. Marc previously helped launch the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance, and has served as the Chairman of the Board of the International Cancer Research Partnership, the Health Research Alliance and is also the former chairman of the Cancer Committee Advisory Board for the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

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