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Future of Health Summit 2026 | 11-13 November
Featured Future of Health Summit 2026 Power of Ideas Essays
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Health and Hunger Are Connected—Our Safety Net Should Be, Too
For Ashleigh Ligon, a connected network of support was essential to her family’s health. While pregnant, Ashleigh enrolled in Medicaid after her husband was injured at work.Read Essay -
Before Treating Dementia, We Have to See It
Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia.Read Essay -
A Better Health-Care System Begins with Trust
I’ve watched our industry move through cycles of innovation, frustration, and reform. When the frustration builds, I understand the instinct to ask whether we’d be better off starting over.Read Essay
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Who Should Draw the Blueprint for Better Health?
For all the progress made in health, the opportunity to achieve better health outcomes remains unequal. Innovation matters when it reaches the people who need it, and that does not happen automatically. Our challenge, and collective...Read Essay -
Founder-Mode Medicine: The Antidote to Rare Diseases
Every waking moment, a bolt of genetic lightning strikes an unsuspecting family. It strikes indiscriminately, without regard for background, income, or geography. A long tail of more than 10,000 rare diseases afflicts roughly 400 million...Read Essay -
We Agree Food Is Medicine—We Still Can’t Agree What’s Healthy
During your weekly grocery trip, you witness three people reaching for the same branded box of granola bars. Is there some big promotional discount to check out? The first shopper is a 58-year-old middle school teacher. For years, her...Read Essay
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Beyond COPs: Building the Road to Resilience
The conversation about climate and sustainability has shifted a great deal in the last few years, from what we need to do to achieve 2050 science-based targets and keep average warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, to how we more rapidly adapt...Read Article -
Commercial Diplomacy that Delivers for the US and Africa
The US and other major donor countries have reduced foreign assistance to Africa while signaling a shift towards new models that prioritize mutually beneficial trade and investment. This transition presents an opportunity to build a...Read ArticleThe US and other major donor countries have reduced foreign assistance to Africa while signaling a shift towards new models that prioritize mutually beneficial trade and investment.
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Community Infrastructure Center: A Theory of Change for US Infrastructure Investment
The US is facing an estimated $4 trillion infrastructure funding gap over the next 10 years, threatening our ability to preserve and enhance quality of life, public safety and resilience, and economic development for generations to come...Read ArticleThe US is facing an estimated $4 trillion infrastructure funding gap over the next 10 years, threatening our ability to preserve and enhance quality of life, public safety and resilience, and economic...
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