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Spotlight Health: The Science, Culture, and Sociology of Health

This past week Aspen Radio celebrated three years of Spotlight Health, Aspen's premier event focusing on the scientific, cultural and sociological aspects of health and healthcare.

Blog Post

02.29.2016
Health Care

16 Reasons to Campaign for Women's Rights in 2016

In many parts of the world cows are given more rights than women.

BY New Voices Fellows

Blog Post

02.09.2016
Health Care

Announcing the 2016 New Voices Fellows

Who tells our stories — whether on the movie screen or in the newspaper opinion pages — matters. The Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship broadens the global development conversation, bringing new perspectives to the media’s coverage of health and development issues. The New Voices Fellows are telling the story of development, thereby changing the development process itself.

BY Rachael Strecher

Blog Post

02.02.2016
Health Care

Technology: The Key to Improving Global Health

Three Aspen Institute New Voice Fellows — Rubayat Khan, Dr. Esther Ngumbi and David Kuria — share how technology has informed their strategies to improve global health, as well as the inspiration behind their work.

BY Rachel Landis, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

12.09.2015
Health Care

Public Health Grand Rounds with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading the foundation’s efforts to reduce inequity and ensure that every person in the world has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life.

BY Raman Ravindran & 1 more

Video

12.08.2015
Health Care

The 'Cure' to Ending Violence in Baltimore

When viewed through a health lens, the more a person is exposed to violence, the more likely they are to be involved in future incidents of violence — either as a victim or a perpetrator, spreading like a disease.

BY Matan Zeimer, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

12.03.2015
Health Care

Q&A: 'Find Me Unafraid' Author and New Voices Fellow Kennedy Odede

Kennedy Odede’s new book "Find Me Unafraid," co-written with his wife, chronicles their lives, their love story, and their work in his hometown, which has one of the largest slums in Africa.

BY Holly Kearl, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

11.17.2015
Health Care

Dying to Live

I was a young medical officer working at the Emergency Unit of the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone when I advised the mother of a child with severe malaria to tell a blatant lie.

BY Samuel Kargbo

Blog Post

10.05.2015
Health Care

Why Can’t We Stop Cholera in Haiti?

Five years on, cholera has killed nearly 9,000 Haitians. More than 730,000 people have been infected. It is the worst outbreak of the disease, globally, in modern history.

BY Rose George

Blog Post

09.01.2015
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