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Future of Health Summit 2021
About the 2021 Future of Health Summit (FHS)
COVID-19 threatened our health and well-being, exposed weaknesses across health systems, and exacerbated healthcare disparities. Despite these challenges, we saw extraordinary coordination to defeat the coronavirus and advance global health.
To save both lives and livelihoods, competitors became collaborators, pooling scientific research to fight COVID-19 while improving pandemic preparedness, disease prevention, diversity in clinical trials, mental health services, food access, and more.
Given these silver linings, the Milken Institute—and its catalytic community—turned lessons learned from 2020 into a healthier, more resilient, and more equitable future for all.
Virtual, Washington, DC United States
GLOBAL REACH
The Future of Health Summit 2021 virtual program featured public and private sessions, with coverage across international news outlets and social media networks generating billions of impressions.
200+ SPEAKERS
We brought more than 200 speakers together to discuss trends in vaccine development and distribution, pandemic prevention, health equity, biomedical innovation, mental health, long-term care, health financing, philanthropy, social isolation and loneliness, addiction and stigma, health policy, food and sustainability, telehealth, neuroscience, and technology.
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1,000+ PARTICIPANTS
Participants included business executives, policymakers, philanthropists, patient advocates, healthcare workers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, Nobel Laureates, academics, investors, providers, payers, employers, researchers, and scientists.
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Future of Health Summit 2021
Revisit all of the sessions and explore the full program and speaker lineup.