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Infodemic: Webinar

MARCH 19, 2020 - As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, so does misinformation — thwarting efforts to control the disease and risking lives. Dr. Claire Wardle, a leading expert on content verification, outlines the global trends around information flows and the coronavirus.

BY Vivian Schiller

Video

03.19.2020
Public Health

COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Health Care Recommendations

Designated as one of Health Affairs Top 10 most-read blog posts for 2020, this piece provides recommendations on the COVID-19 Stimulus Bill to the Administration, Congress, and other federal, state and local leaders from public health, medical, policy and legal experts.

BY Ruth J. Katz & 11 more

Of Interest

03.12.2020
Public Health

Straight from the Source: Experts Discuss Novel Coronavirus

More than 100 cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported in the United States, as of March 3, 2020.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

03.03.2020
Health Care

Health Technology Assessment for the US Healthcare System

The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine & Society Program have together established an advisory panel to consider how the U.S. can better link the price of health technologies to the benefits they provide to patients while ensuring a sustainable healthcare ecosystem that supports innovation.

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program & 1 more

Publication

03.02.2020
Economic Development

Introducing Thrive Rural

Thrive Rural will work closely with community and economic development, health and civic engagement experts across the nation to create a shared vision and understanding about what it will take to create dynamic, sustainable rural communities where all people can realize their full potential and live healthy lives.

BY Katharine Ferguson

Blog Post

02.24.2020
Public Health

7 Things to Know About the Coronavirus

Underestimating the threat puts lives at risk. Overestimating it can cause panic and future, perhaps fatal, skepticism.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

02.19.2020
Public Health

Healthy Communities Fellows Op-Ed

The Aspen Global Innovators Group in partnership with the Aetna Foundation launched the first cohort of the Healthy Communities Fellowship in September 2018 to amplify the voices of community leaders addressing.

BY Aspen Global Innovators Group

Blog Post

12.19.2019
Public Health

Combating "Maternal Health Mysticism" in Native American Communities

As a Navajo Nurse-Midwife, Nicolle L. Gonzales discusses Native American’s experiences around birth, motherhood, and all around reproductive choices.

BY Nicolle L. Gonzales, CNM

Blog Post

10.17.2019
Public Health

2019 Black Maternal Health Caucus

Jennie Joseph's testimony from the 2019 Black Maternal Health Caucus.

BY Jennie Joseph

Blog Post

10.07.2019
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