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Art in the Aftermath of War

Timothy Donley, lead singer of the MusiCorps Wounded Warrior Band, performs "Wide River to Cross," by Levon Helm, with MusiCorps founder Arthur Bloom.

BY Arts Program

Video

03.12.2015
Health Care

Fighting Ebola on All Fronts

Though the epidemic is no longer a front-page story, the virus is far from being contained.

BY Christian Bréchot

Blog Post

01.04.2015
Health Care

Healthspottr Impact Award Ceremony

Presented by Healthspottr Chairman Larry Leisure and CEO Carleen Hawn, acknowledging a Retreat attendee who has produced an outstanding and measurable impa ...

BY Institute Contributor

Video

12.15.2014
Health Care

1,000 New Ebola Cases Each Week: CDC Director on Numbers and Solutions

“It’s going to be a very long, hard fight,” Dr. Tom Frieden said of the efforts to eliminate Ebola at a recent Aspen Institute Health, Medicine, and Society Program lecture.

Blog Post

11.18.2014
Health Care

How Lessons from the Past Can Help Us Beat Ebola

While the CDC director said Ebola could be the world's next AIDS, leadership and swift action can beat this outbreak, provided we're able to learn from the mistakes of the past. The missing ingredients are human compassion and improving the systems that will stop this outbreak and keep future outbreaks from happening.

BY Ruth J. Katz

Blog Post

10.15.2014
Health Care

How Health Care 'Hotspotting' Can Lower Costs, Improve Quality

The expensive and inefficient nature of the American health care system is nothing new. But a clear understanding of the reasons for high health care costs and poor quality may finally bring us closer to improving these problems.

BY Alice Lee, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

10.02.2014
Health Care

The Affordable Care Act: Affording Two-Generation Approaches to Health

This report highlights the opportunity in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the accompanying Medicaid expansion to produce better health and economic stability for children and parents together.

BY Ascend at the Aspen Institute & 1 more

Publication

09.18.2014
Health Care

Ebola: One Treatment, Two Doctors, Two Health Systems, and Two Different Outcomes

The discharge of American Dr. Kent Brantly from Liberia once he was stricken with Ebola and flown to the US and treated with an experimental drug — even as his colleague was being buried on the other side of the globe — illustrates that tackling the Ebola outbreak needs more than medication. Why would the drug work in America but not in Africa?

BY Utibe Effiong, MD, MPH, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

08.28.2014
Health Care

Spotlight Health: A Social Media Recap

Spotlight: Health — the health-focused event series kickoff to the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival — has come to a close, but the groundbreaking ideas presented by some of the featured speakers are already gaining traction on social media.

BY Kara Burney, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

06.28.2014
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