Hadly Clark is an associate director on the FasterCures team at Milken Institute Health. She is an experienced health care professional focused on the intersection of health and technology and leads oncology-focused initiatives exploring innovative screening technologies and anti-cancer treatments.
Anita Totten, a senior associate on the Public Health team at the Milken Institute, provides project and research support for the team’s chronic disease and prevention, mental health, and health equity strategic pillars of work. She actively champions the role of employers in whole-person health through projects that advance racial equity and mental health system changes, employer-sponsored insurance innovation, obesity care modernization, and investments in digital health for substance use disorders.
Our research and stakeholder engagement revealed four priority areas in which employers are poised to deploy a whole-person health approach to SUD that encompasses: (1) fostering trust, (2) reducing stigma, (3) building awareness and improving education, and (4) increasing availability and access to services. Recognizing that employers are in different stages of development and change, this report identifies priority areas, insights, and actions to consider at varying stages (i.e., early, mid, and advanced) in conjunction with the incorporation of digital health technologies as part of broader employer efforts.
Employers seek to support their employees while normalizing a whole-person approach to substance use disorders (SUD). The response to addiction and the opioid crisis requires a whole-of-society approach, including employers of all sizes. Employers are uniquely positioned to reach employees, their families, and their surrounding communities, in part as employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) currently provides coverage for approximately 180 million people (or roughly half of the US population).
The Milken Institute Public Health team conducted mixed-methods research to better understand challenges, barriers to entry, current successes, and methods through which employers can embed evidence-based research and health outcomes into digital health technologies focused on addressing SUD.
FasterCures, a Center of the Milken Institute, is pleased to see the inclusion of $1 billion in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in the omnibus FY22 spending bill recently passed. We have long...
Esther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients’ lives.
The formal adoption of the ‘Healthy China 2030’ blueprint on October 25, 2016, marked a turning point in the evolution of China’s public health policy reforms. The significance of this national strategic plan, with 12 well-defined targets...
FasterCures wants to ensure that the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis are not lost once the current urgency subsides — not only for combating future infectious diseases, but for conducting every other aspect of biomedical innovation...
Clinical trial networks, as evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, really are “national critical infrastructure.” The pandemic revealed prominent gaps and stark differences in health outcomes across various populations. A community-based...
Global think tank Milken Institute announced today the return of its annual Asia Summit in Singapore. The three-day event is slated to take place from September 18 – 20 at the Four Seasons Hotel. This year’s agenda will drive innovative...
Associate Director, Milken Institute International
Yeen Chee Chong is an associate director for Milken Institute International. Based in Singapore, he oversees and manages strategic communications with a wide range of global and regional media publications and partners. Chong works closely with colleagues in both Asia and the United States on planning and implementing global public relations and social media campaigns.
Los Angeles, CA (April 10, 2025 )—T he Milken Institute today announced its initial speakers and program agenda for the 2025 Global Conference , taking place May 4–7 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Featuring more than 150 public...
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
Hite’s decades of healthcare finance experience will enhance center’s approach to biomedical innovation WASHINGTON, August 13, 2019 – FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, today announced the appointment of Christopher Hite, Vice...
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Esther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients’ lives.
The Milken Institute Center for Public Health (the Center) focuses on chronic disease research, policy evaluation, and thought leadership by convening experts and stakeholders. As part of this work, the Center aims to change the public’s...
While the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many of the fault lines in the biomedical innovation ecosystem that have slowed progress for decades, we have also shown ourselves capable of innovating in ways we perhaps did not...
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) refers to a family of neurodegenerative conditions that cause changes in behavior, mood, executive function, language, memory, and motor function. FTD is widely believed to be underdiagnosed and undercounted...
October 29, 2024 (Washington, DC)—The Milken Institute, a global nonpartisan think tank, today issued a new report outlining efforts to curb gun violence through a multipronged approach leveraging business and philanthropic communities. The...
Paul Guequierre is the director of strategic communications. In this role, he works to increase the profile of Milken Institute in the media, raise the visibility of issues important to the organization and its stakeholders, and expand the Institute's digital presence.