Rebekah Gee: Improving Health, One Family at a Time

Howie and Harlan are joined by Rebekah Gee, founder and CEO of Nest Health, which provides in-home care to kids on Medicaid and their families. Harlan reports on the first personalized CRISPR gene therapy for a rare genetic disease; Howie untangles the FDA's restrictions on the COVID-19 booster and what it will mean for your ability to get a shot this fall. Links: A Breakthrough CRISPR Treatment "Baby Is Healed With World's First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment" (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/he...) "Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40373...) "Progress in the Development of N-of-1 Therapy" (https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM...) "Personalized Gene Editing to Treat an Inborn Error of Metabolism" (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...) Nest Health Health & Veritas Episode 40: Rebekah Gee: Can We Bring Family Healthcare to the Home? (https://insights.som.yale.edu/podcast...) Nest Health (https://www.nesthealth.com/) "Nest Health picks up $4M in seed extension funding to build out at-home primary care for families" (https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/digi...) "How Nest Health Is Redefining Primary Care for Families" (https://www.springtide.com/company-hi...) Rebekah Gee on LinkedIn on Nest Health "What 'patient-centered' should mean: confessions of an extremist" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19454...) "Prevalence and Variation of Developmental Screening and Surveillance in Early Childhood" (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...) "Postpartum health is in crisis" (https://harvardpublichealth.org/alumn...) "The Impact of the Pandemic on Well-Child Visits for Children Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP" (https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-br...) "Families often have chief medical officers—and they're almost always women" (https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/04...) "Case Study: Louisiana's Poor Rankings Make Improving Birth Outcomes a State Imperative" (https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publ...) "In 6-to-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Ends Nearly 50 Years of Abortion Rights" (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us...) Rebekah Gee on LinkedIn on Medicaid cuts (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rebeka...) "5 Key Facts About Medicaid Work Requirements" (https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-br...) "Health Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill" (https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medi...) A New COVID Booster Policy "An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination" (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...) "FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say" (https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...) "FDA tightens requirements for COVID vaccine, adding trials for healthy adults" (https://www.reuters.com/business/heal...) Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM (https://som.yale.edu/programs/emba) . Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions. (mailto:[email protected])