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Partnerships for Real-Time AMR Intelligence: From Lab Data to Better Outcomes
Antibiotics are one of our greatest scientific advancements. Their overuse is one of our greatest failures. Patients leave hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies every day with prescriptions for antibiotics they don’t need. This is not due to...
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From Resistance to Resilience: How GenAI is Powering New Partnerships
Picture this: A young patient walks into the hospital with what should be a routine infection. But the bacteria resist most antibiotics, having evolved mechanisms to evade them over decades. The few remaining options are limited, expensive...
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Driving Change Through Health Reminders and Incentives to Improve Life Expectancy
Improving the life expectancy gap in the United States is only possible through innovation and partnerships. In Chicago, that life expectancy gap is 20 years, meaning in the wealthiest neighborhoods, people on average live to about 87 years...
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A Prevention Power Play: Lessons from a Game-Changing Partnership
Every breakthrough—on the ice, in the lab, or in the boardroom—begins with a simple question: What if we looked at things differently? Despite decades of progress, cancer remains one of our greatest health challenges. The ongoing fight...
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Honoring the Patient Voice: Partnering with Older Adults to Improve Health
What if we required every major aging policy decision to pass a simple test: Does this align with what older adults say they want for their lives? Imagine if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state governments, and insurers...
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Effective Partnerships Will Improve Public Health and Restore Trust
No single group can solve America’s biggest health challenges alone. Doctors, government agencies, schools, and businesses each bring something important to the table. But progress doesn’t come from working in silos—it comes when these...
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When Food Is Medicine Leads: Integrating Access, Payments, and Care
Imagine an ecosystem where receiving care, accessing your personal finances, and shopping for groceries all run on shared, secure systems across health-care benefits, payments, food, transportation, and retail—synchronized to remove...
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Community Health Centers Show Bipartisanship Creates an Enduring Health Care Legacy
In an era of partisan gridlock and government shutdowns, one American innovation stands as a testament to what bipartisan cooperation can achieve: community health centers (CHCs). For 60 years, CHCs have embodied a partnership among...
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How Multisector Collaboration Can Meet and Anticipate Alzheimer’s Advancements
We've never had better tools to reach people with Alzheimer's disease in time for meaningful impact. Yet most people still cannot access a timely and accurate diagnosis earlier in the disease when intervention matters most. With...
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