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Laurette Dub茅鈥檚 career as a nutritionist seems so distant that she calls it 鈥渁 former life.鈥� Since then she has completed an MBA in Finance, a master鈥檚 of professional studies in marketing and a PhD in consumer psychology. She joined the Desautels Faculty of Management as a consumer psychologist in 1995, focusing her research on 鈥渘on-rational鈥� aspects of decision-making and behavior. In 2000, Dub茅 found new inspiration in her old career, redirecting her research efforts toward questions of global health. She spearheaded the transdisciplinary Brain-to-Society research program, which initially applied cutting-edge neuroscience and systems science to questions of nutrition and obesity. In 2003, she launched the 海角社区 Health Challenge Think Tanks, annual explorations of the intersection of health and economics. After five successful years, which saw luminaries such as economist Paul Krugman and psychologist Daniel Kahneman, both Nobel laureates, join Think Tank discussions, Dub茅 and her collaborators and partners grew that initiative into the new 海角社区 World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence. Led by the Desautels Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Medicine, the MWP aims to connect the world鈥檚 top thinkers and practitioners in science, business, government and health. 鈥淥ur objective is to put health into economic decisions at all levels,鈥� says Dub茅, 鈥渁nd, conversely, to weave economic considerations into health, health care delivery and public health.鈥� She spoke to Headway following the launch of the first annual MWP 鈥淭hink-and-Do Tank,鈥� held at 海角社区 during November 2009.