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Employers Investing in Women: Advancing Business, Employees, and Communities

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Gabby Hines

Associate, Employer Action Exchange, Milken Institute Health
Gabby Hines is an associate on the Public Health team at the Milken Institute.
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Sabrina Spitaletta

Senior Director, Employer Action Exchange, Milken Institute Health
Sabrina Spitaletta has been at the Milken Institute since 2017. She leads the work focused on the role of employers advancing public health and develops strategic collaborations across sectors and industries to advance whole-person health and performance at work and in the community.
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Lena Flaum

Senior Associate, Employer Action Exchange, Milken Institute Health
Lena Flaum is a senior associate on the public health team at Milken Institute Health. As a communications liaison, she leads various project-related writing and editing to amplify the team’s work across its three focus areas of mental health, prevention and chronic disease, and health equity.
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Women represent 47 percent of the US workforce and contribute 37 percent to the global gross domestic product, yet data show that women’s health continues to face significant underinvestment across many disease conditions that affect women differently, disproportionately, or uniquely. 

In December 2025, the Milken Institute’s Employer Action Exchange (EAE), in collaboration with the Milken Institute's Women’s Health Network, hosted a private executive roundtable to examine the unique role that employers play in building resilience, advancing health and well-being, and driving performance for women in the workplace. The conversation was anchored in the EAE’s foundational research, which includes key opinion–leader interviews and an extensive landscape analysis. The discussion that followed was structured around the EAE’s distinctive framework, which encompasses both internal and external considerations for employer-led investments in health and performance, and included discussion focused on the benefits of investing in women for all employees and communities.

The latest EAE brief, Employers Investing in Women: Advancing Business, Employees, and Communities, explores how employers can drive performance for all through health care policies and programs, organizational culture and well-being, community and business investments, as well as industry and sector standards.

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