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How One Writer Found Herself Living at the Edge of Medical Knowledge

An excerpt from The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke.

BY Meghan O'Rourke

Blog Post

06.16.2022
Science

How to Get Young People Interested in STEM

Gitanjali Rao is an inventor, aspiring scientist, and author who will speak at Aspen Ideas: Health in June.

BY Gitanjali Rao

Blog Post

05.27.2022
Health Care

Join Us This Summer for Aspen Ideas: Health 2022!

Aspen Ideas: Health returns to the mountains of Colorado from June 22-25, 2022 to explore bold approaches to better health for all! With open-air venues that celebrate the natural landscape and creative programming that encourages interactivity between attendees and speakers, this is not your ordinary health conference.

BY Aspen Ideas: Health

Of Interest

01.20.2022
Around the Institute

Ringing in an Expansive New Year in 2022

2022 brings big issues to tackle—and the Aspen Institute has big plans to address them.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

12.20.2021
Health Care

Aspen Ideas: Health 2022

Aspen Ideas: Health will return to the mountains of Colorado from June 22-25, 2022 to explore bold approaches to better health. Join us!

Event

10.12.2021
The Brain

Building Brain Health at Any Age

It turns out brain fitness at any age heightens and protects brain function and can even prevent brain disease.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

06.09.2021
The Brain

An Outsider's Search for Belonging in America

Award-winning author and playwright Ayad Akhtar grapples with identity and belonging just like the protagonist in his book Homeland Elegies.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

06.01.2021
Racial Equity

Unequal from the Start

Throughout American history, racism has been embedded in health and health care. To justify slavery, scientists promulgated falsehoods about African Americans and health.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

05.26.2021
Public Health

Chef's Special: Healthy, Sustainable Food

Food justice sits at the intersection of health, economics, the environment, geography, and race. During Aspen Ideas: Health 2021, Chef Bryant Terry shared his vision for a truly sustainable food system that would help make healthy and culturally appropriate food choices accessible and affordable to all, in conversation with Joe Yonan of The Washington Post.

BY Aspen Ideas: Health

Video

05.19.2021
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