Discusses how the development and deployment of ethical technology products is a competitive advantage for companies.

Our guests today are Jennie Baird and Robert Levitan from the Ethical Tech Project.

Jennie is the Co-Chair of the Ethical Tech Project and a digital media trailblazer. Throughout her 30+ year career, she's driven growth and innovation for some of media’s most successful digital brands and legacy-to-digital crossovers. Today, she dedicates her work to supporting and advising tech-for-good businesses and organizations. At ETP, she spearheads the nonprofit’s strategy to educate, convene, and equip technology and AI builders in making design, engineering, and go-to-market decisions that foster trust and enable human flourishing. She ardently believes that good technology should make the world better and that doing good is good for business.

Robert is the Co-Chair of the Ethical Tech Project. He is an entrepreneur and internet pioneer who has started six companies across a variety of industries and raised more than $150 in venture capital funding. Robert co-founded iVillage, an early online community that went public in 1999. He also co-founded Flooz.com, one of the first online digital currency platforms in 1999. Robert was also the co-founder of Pando Networks, which was sold to Microsoft in 2013. Robert is a collaborative business leader passionate about helping mission-driven organizations grow through strong customer relationships and productive strategic partnerships.


Additional resources:

• The Ethical Tech Project: https://www.ethicaltechproject.org/
• CITI Program’s Tech Ethics training solution: https://about.citiprogram.org/solutions/tech-ethics/

Discusses key takeaways from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s revised Clinical Decision Support Software and General Wellness Product guidance documents.

Our guests today are Christina Kuhn and Olivia Dworkin from the law firm Covington. Christina advises medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies on a broad range of FDA regulatory strategy and compliance matters. She has experience with cutting-edge and complex medical technologies, including software and digital health products, oncology products, next-generation sequencing, diagnostics, and combination products. Olivia minimizes regulatory and litigation risks for clients in the medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, eCommerce, and digital health industries through strategic advice on complex FDA issues, helping to bring innovative products to market while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Additional resources:

• FDA’s Clinical Decision Support Software guidance: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/clinical-decision-support-software
• FDA’s General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices guidance: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/general-wellness-policy-low-risk-devices
• 5 Key Takeaways from FDA’s Revised Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Software Guidance: https://www.cov.com/news-and-insights/insights/2026/01/5-key-takeaways-from-fdas-revised-clinical-decision-support-cds-software-guidance
• FDA Issues Revised Guidance on General Wellness Products: https://www.cov.com/en/news-and-insights/insights/2026/01/fda-issues-revised-guidance-on-general-wellness-products
• Covington Digital Health Blog and Resources: https://www.cov.com/en/practices-and-industries/industries/digital-health
• CITI Program’s Essentials of Software as a Medical Device and Clinical Decision Support Systems: https://about.citiprogram.org/course/essentials-of-software-as-a-medical-device-clinical-decision-support-systems/
• CITI Program’s course catalog: https://about.citiprogram.org/course-catalog

Discusses digital health solutions that support health promotion and disease prevention.

Our guest today is Danielle Louder, who serves as the Co-Director of MCD Global Health’s U.S. Programs and the Director of the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center. In these roles, she is responsible for advancing the use of digital health strategies to improve health access and outcomes.

Additional resources:

• National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers: https://telehealthresourcecenter.org/
• National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center: https://telehealthtechnology.org/
• Northeast Telehealth Resource Center: https://www.netrc.org/
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: https://telehealth.hhs.gov/
• Center for Connected Health Policy: https://www.cchpca.org/
• National Digital Inclusion Alliance: https://www.digitalinclusion.org/
• National Digital Equity Center: https://digitalequitycenter.org/
• DiMe Digital Health Series: https://about.citiprogram.org/series/dime-digital-health-series/
• TelehealthVillage @UVA: https://about.citiprogram.org/series/teleheatlhvillage-uva/
• CITI Program’s course catalog: https://about.citiprogram.org/course-catalog