There is undeniable evidence that changes to the climate impact the day-to-day lives of individuals, communities, and corporations alike. The latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in August 2021, confirms that increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), so-called because they absorb and trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, have irreversible consequences. Climate change has arrived and more quickly than was predicted in previous assessments. Its repercussions, in the form of extreme heat waves, wildfires, superstorms, and flash floods, are already scarring, charring, flattening, and inundating large swaths of land, devastating cities and towns, and uprooting lives and livelihoods. With an intense focus on an environmentally sustainable future by organizations, both big and small, adapting the existing systems and developing new, cleaner technologies will be critical.
Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States was confronted with a number of significant policy concerns. Today, working together to solve those challenges is more imperative than ever. The Milken Institute is committed...
Countries undergoing population aging today are facing a much different experience than their historical counterparts. One only needs to look at the countries in Asia to see how these trends are unfolding. Demographic aging is happening...
The Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the Ann Theodore Foundation have released a new request for proposals (RFP) focused on understanding the underlying biology of sarcoidosis. Applications are open through January 20...
The 26th annual Milken Institute Global Conference convened the best minds in the world to tackle its most urgent challenges and realize its most exciting opportunities. Throughout the four-day event, our health teams curated nearly three...
Technical Update Dementia presents a pernicious gender-based health disparity in the United States, inflicting a disproportionate burden on women as both patients and caregivers. Given the rapid increase in the population of older Americans...
Nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 sparked many of the largest US corporations to pledge more than $200 billion to advance racial equity and confront the nation’s history of systemic racism. Nonprofits, government agencies, and...
The Ann Theodore Foundation Breakthrough Sarcoidosis Initiative (ATF-BSI) is now accepting applications for two-year research projects that seek to increase our foundational understanding of sarcoidosis through projects focused on the...
The Financial Innovations Labs® and FasterCures teams have collaborated on a project to identify new models for financing the antimicrobial resistant antibiotic pipeline. These past 18 months have demonstrated how consequential public...