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Write to me.
Press, podcast bookings, collaboration, a question about the First Question Framework, or a note if something I wrote landed or missed. This is the door for all of it.
Every message is read by Charu Raheja or by someone who works directly with her.
What this page is for
Press and journalists
Interviews, quotes, background on the beginning of healthcare, or a comment on a story you are already writing. Tell me your deadline in the first line.
Podcast hosts
If your audience cares about how healthcare begins, the first clinical decision, or why non-clinical hands hold clinical outcomes, I want to have the conversation. Send the show and the angle.
Collaborators
Researchers, clinicians, association leaders, and non-profits working on the earliest moment of care. Say what you are building and where our work meets.
Readers
If something I wrote landed, or missed, tell me. Some of the sharpest thinking on how healthcare begins has come from people writing back.
One thing this page is not
Inviting me to speak at your event? That has its own page.
It has its own page, Invite Charu to speak, and it asks the questions I need answered before I can say yes. It saves us both a round of email.
Send a message
Tell me what you're working on
A few lines is enough. If it's press or a podcast, name the outlet and the deadline. If it's collaboration, tell me what you're building. If you're writing as a reader, say what prompted it.
I read what comes in, and you'll hear back.
Other ways in
Read the idea first
If you want context before you write, start at The Beginning of Healthcare or the First Question Framework. Most first questions I get are answered there.
Follow the work
Writing lives on the Insights page. Interviews and features live on Media. Both are updated as the conversation moves.