Founder

Juan C. Arias, MD, MPH, MSc

Physician with master’s degrees in public health and biomedical informatics. He founded MedicalPoints to pursue one question: why, in similar contexts, some people thrive, others fall ill and others are left out.

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The question

Between clinical care, public health and data, the same question keeps coming back: how health happens in real life, and why averages hide the very people who matter most.

MedicalPoints exists to answer it with method: data that already exists, models that can be explained, and language a team can use to decide.

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What he works on

Population health analytics, interpretable risk models, geographic and service-network analysis, health informatics, and program design and evaluation.

He is especially interested in where clinical care, place and behavior meet: who is at risk, where, and when a person is ready to act.

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How he works

Before choosing a tool, he locates the problem: how much is known, how much is shared, which disciplines are needed and which territory is involved.

And he keeps a distinction many overlook: predicting is not explaining. When the question is causal, he uses methods designed for it and says so.

Profiles

Works in English and Spanish, between the United States and Colombia.

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