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Milken Institute Health — Summer 2025

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two side by side images of Esther Krofah of the Milken Institute standing with two different notable speakers from the Milken Institute's Global Conference 2025, one of which is Jill Biden.

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Play Back Milken Institute Global Conference Health Sessions

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Milken Institute Global Conference Health Sessions

Search the Milken Institute Global Conference program and play back any of the public session recordings on demand. View these compelling sessions curated by Milken Institute Health:

Program Highlights

Project Prevent Collaborative

Since May 2024, Milken Institute Health has assessed and evaluated the landscape of successful, evidence-based models for preventive services in the US, as part of Project Prevent. In February 2025, Milken Institute Health launched the Project Prevent Collaborative, inviting stakeholders to participate in small- and large-group forums to discuss and identify opportunities for statewide or national expansions. In these sessions, Milken Institute Health will serve as a facilitator—connecting potential project funders, community-based organizations, and policymakers—to develop and promote policies that incentivize proactive health care. To learn more, write to [email protected].

Join FasterCures' Virtual Convening on June 11: Defining the Value and ROI of Patient Engagement in Medtech Product Development

Over the past decade, the integration of patient perspectives into biomedical research has gained significant traction. However, in the medtech sector, there has been less progress in measuring and evaluating the impact of patient engagement across the research and development life cycle and within decision-making processes. To help close this gap, FasterCures is developing a framework designed to support medtech companies in strengthening and better understanding the impact of their patient-engagement efforts.

FasterCures is hosting a virtual public convening on June 11, 1–3:30 p.m. ET, to discuss the framework, gather public comments, and hear real-world case studies from medtech companies and patient organizations. Learn more and register here. Please note, written comments on the framework from all interested parties can be sent to [email protected] by June 30, 2025.

FasterCures’ TRAIN Celebrates 20 Years

In 2005, FasterCures launched The Research Acceleration and Innovation Network (TRAIN), a program dedicated to empowering disease-focused patient organizations to adopt strategic and entrepreneurial approaches to funding medical research. For the past two decades, TRAIN has provided resources, tools, and initiatives to help patient organizations build their capacity and gain momentum for research efforts for the patient communities they serve. To commemorate TRAIN’s 20th anniversary, we are sharing brief articles on FasterCures’ LinkedIn written by TRAIN members, focused on the impact that TRAIN and patient organizations have had in driving research progress over the past two decades. Please follow and engage with these powerful and inspiring stories of impact.

Employer Action Exchange

The focus of the Employer Action Exchange (EAE) in 2025 is on mitigating risk and building resilience for businesses, employees, and communities. The EAE has hosted two in-person executive roundtables so far this year, involving 40 different employers: “Employer Investments: Mitigating Risk to Maximize Business, People and Community Resilience and Performance,” and “The Evolving Role of Local to Large Employers in Community Well-Being.” Recaps with insights and actions from these sessions and the Global Conference panel, “Competitive Edge: Investing in Workforce Resiliency and Risk Mitigation,” will be published shortly. The EAE’s Executive Insights series includes six interviews published so far this year. In addition to active cross-sector employer project work, we’ve launched a multi-year initiative with The Hartford, “Redefining the Next Generation of Work, Impact, and Risk by Investing in Employee Resiliency and Whole-Person Health.” Recent EAE publications include two Culmination of Insights and Actions from projects focused on “Employers Building a Resilient Culture from HQ to Isolated Remote Locations” and “Employer Social Impact and School Educational Investments in Whole-Person Health for K–12,” and then two priority recaps focused on “Employers Investing in Leading with Empathy” and “Mitigating Risk to Build Resilient Workforces, Communities and Businesses.”

Food as Health and Food Systems Transformation

Feeding Change continues to respond to emerging needs across the food system, from food-systems resilience to Food Is Medicine (FIM). Feeding Change’s newest report, A Blueprint for Employer-Led Food as Health Strategies, highlights food- and nutrition-focused strategies that employers can implement to support the health of their employees, their organizations, and their broader communities. Thanks to support from the Kroger Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation, the report offers a step-by-step roadmap that guides employers through how to implement food as health strategies that meet their organizations’ priorities and their employees’ needs. In addition to FIM, Feeding Change has also been spearheading thought leadership around food-systems resilience. With support from Manulife, Feeding Change published a brief on Perspectives on a Natural Capital Approach to Financing Food Systems Transformation, which explores how a natural capital approach to investing in food systems can catalyze investment in food and agricultural climate solutions. Through outlining use cases and common terms, exploring the role of measurement in this investment strategy, and highlighting key challenges and benefits, this brief is intended to bridge communication between investors and food-systems stakeholders and unlock potential financing in food systems across the food value chain.   

Supporting Family Caregivers in the Workplace

Released earlier this year, the Milken Institute Future of Aging's report, Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead, provides actionable strategies for employers to support employees and create caregiving-friendly workplaces. Additionally, the Future of Aging was proud to partner with US News & World Report (USN), the Society for Human Resources (SHRM), and the Johns Hopkins Business of Health Initiative to contribute data as part of the ratings for the 2025 USN list of Best Companies to Work For: Supporting Family Caregiving. The goal was to help job seekers and employees make informed decisions about companies that best support their responsibility of caring for loved ones. Learn more in this press release and explore the ratings. 

Future of Connected Care in the Home Initiative

Ninety-five percent of adults agree that aging in place is an important goal. However, the ability to do so is increasingly intertwined with technology, as digital transformation shifts how people access support and care to meet their fluctuating needs. Informed through a comprehensive research process, including 50 expert interviews, a 25-person roundtable, and an extensive literature review, the newest report from the Milken Institute Future of Aging, made possible through the support of Samsung, offers a blueprint for how to harness the potential of digital health tools, smart home technologies, and AgeTech to address older adults’ preferences to age at home and the societal imperative to care for an aging population of 58 million and growing in the US.

The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care

Entering its fifth year, the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, convened by the Future of Aging, brings together a multisector coalition of over 130 leaders and organizations to advance timely detection, improve access to treatment and coordinated care, and address health equity for people at risk for or living with dementia and their caregivers. In 2025, the Alliance will continue to: (1) champion the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience model, launched by the CMS Innovation Center to expand access to comprehensive dementia care; (2) identify and support initiatives that enhance awareness, early detection, and timely diagnosis of dementia through a strategic partnership with the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative; and (3) advance age-friendly and dementia-friendly communities, workplaces, and care settings to provide better support for individuals living with or at risk of dementia and their care partners.

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Milken Institute Insights

Milken Institute Insights features senior leaders from the Milken Institute sharing their insights, expertise, and vision to inform and inspire others. Here are the latest thought-provoking articles from Milken Institute Health team members.

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  • An interview on NPR Georgia featured Ty with information for employers from Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead, about how supporting caregivers in the workplace can raise employee retention rates.
  • A Healthcare Today article highlighted the Milken Institute's proposals to finance preventive care in the UK as outlined in The Reinvention of Prevention: How to Fund and Finance a Pivot to a Prevention-First Healthcare System, published as part of the Milken Institute’s Project Prevent.
  • An article in McKnights Senior Living referenced the first-ever list of companies supporting family caregivers, which was produced by Us News in partnership with the Milken Institute and SHRM.
  • An article in bio.news, the newsletter of Biotechnology Innovation Organization, included information from Puerini about the critical need for patient-organization engagement with CMS.
  • An article in Fierce Healthcare highlights the Milken Institute’s Women’s Health Network.
  • An article in STAT News summarizes the Global Conference session about innovation in cancer detection, treatment, and prevention. 
  • An article in Drug and Device World quotes Sarah Wells Kocsis, senior director, Public Health, on how employers can transform obesity care, and how “It’s absolutely critical that we as a country, as well as around the world, understand and recognize obesity as a chronic disease.”
  • A Forbes article about investment and partnerships for women’s health highlighted the Milken Institute Women’s Health Network and noted, “Efforts like those of the Milken Institute and Dr. Biden will be essential in creating more spaces, networks, and investment opportunities within women’s health.”
  • A Worth article covers global efforts in brain health and references the work of the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care.  

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