Power of Ideas
An Icon Showed Us the Way: Food, Medicine, and a Healthy America
In the 1968 documentary film Out in the Rural, my mentor and friend Jack Geiger, MD—recognized as one of the founders of the US community health center movement and a champion of public health and health equity—states, “The determinants of...
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The Power of Partnership: Community Health Workers as Catalysts for Better Health
If the last several years have taught us anything, it is that trust is the foundation of health. Yet in many communities — especially Black, Brown, immigrant, and low-income populations—trust in traditional health-care systems is fragile...
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Impact Needs Industry: Why Private Partners Are Critical in Health-Care Ecosystem
The global health-care ecosystem is facing a unique juxtaposition—witnessing new heights of progression and innovation, yet new lows of fragmentation and vulnerability. Significant deficits in global health funding have led to programs...
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Transforming Health Care Through Technological Shifts
Mayo Clinic boldly drives the future of health care—leveraging cutting-edge technology, innovative digital platforms, and unparalleled team-based expertise to create new possibilities and deliver life-changing care for patients everywhere...
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Making Longevity Achievable–and Affordable
Paying for health and wellness care is becoming one of the most important challenges of our time—especially as Americans live longer. Costs are rising, and, in many cases, insurance is covering less, leaving consumers to shoulder the...
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The Partnership Is the Innovation: Rebuilding Health from the Ground Up
In every conversation about health equity, the same phrase eventually surfaces: We need to meet people where they are. But what if we went further—and built systems that start where people are?
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The Future of Health Innovation: Public-Private Partnerships
One of the most foundational elements of being human is to care for others—and to be cared for ourselves. Caring also makes us bada**. Which is a good thing—since almost half of all adults in the United States are serving as unpaid...
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We Know How to Fix Dementia Care—Now We Need to Commit to Doing It
If there’s a chronic disease poised to break the US health-care system in the next decade, it’s dementia. Eight million Americans over 65 are living with Alzheimer’s today—a number expected to nearly double within 15 years. One in nine...
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Harnessing the Alzheimer’s Ecosystem to Accelerate Progress
I have had the privilege to spend my career at the intersection of medicine, science, and philanthropy. As a geriatrician, I have seen the profound toll Alzheimer’s takes on patients and families. As a neuroscientist, I have studied the...
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