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Climate Change

Caring for Your Health Means Caring for the Planet

Climate change is already a health emergency and will expand in the years to come.

BY Kate Jaffee & 1 more

Blog Post

03.27.2020
Family Finances

Exploring the Important Link Between Health and Wealth

Long-lasting improvement on the issues of financial and health inequality requires multidisciplinary solutions that embrace the inter-relatedness of these issues.

BY Rhett Buttle & 1 more

Blog Post

11.05.2019
Family Finances

Link Between Health & Wealth - 5 Takeaways

Tthe Financial Security Program and the Health, Medicine and Society Program are moving forward with the opportunity to examine the common essential building blocks of healthcare, medicine, wellness, and financial well-being.

BY Rhett Buttle & 1 more

Blog Post

11.05.2019
Public Health

Meet the 2019 Class of PHRASES Fellows

These 15 public health leaders have demonstrated a commitment to developing cross-sector collaborations in their communities and a passion for improving the way public health communicates its value to decision-makers in other sectors.

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Blog Post

04.17.2019
Health Care

Reducing the Burden of Chronic Disease

In June 2018, the Aspen Health Strategy Group met for three days and took on hard questions related to the complex and nuanced challenges associated with chronic disease.

BY Aspen Health Strategy Group

Publication

02.12.2019
Health Care

Context & Evidence: Why an Independent FDA?

To meet its vast responsibilities for more than $2.5 trillion in products, the FDA should operate from a structure that best accommodates rigorous, science-based decisionmaking. This White Paper documents the growing demands on the agency and current barriers to regulatory efficiency, and provides supporting evidence for the Commissioners’ consensus recommendation on a two-step pathway to independence.

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Publication

01.07.2019
Health Care

Video: A Collective Call for FDA Independence

In June 2016, six former Commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration convened at Aspen Ideas: Health (previously Spotlight Health) to talk about the challenges facing the FDA. From that stage, they publicly announced their consensus view that the FDA should be transformed into an independent federal agency.

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Video

12.03.2018
Public Health

PHRASES: Public Health Reaching Across Sectors

To help public health leaders effectively communicate the value of public health to potential partners and decision makers in other sectors, the de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society Program have launched PHRASES.

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Blog Post

07.01.2018
Global Health

The Quest for Longer Life

Dan Buettner explains what we can learn from communities where people live the longest.

BY Dan Buettner

Blog Post

06.01.2018
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