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Milken Institute Health bridges innovation gaps across the health and health-care continuum. We advance whole-person health throughout the lifespan by improving healthy aging, public health, biomedical science, and food systems.
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Future of Health Summit 2024
Where the brightest minds unite to drive innovative, inclusive solutions for a healthier future. From AI advancements to health equity, this summit is your gateway to transformative ideas and powerful partnerships for better health outcomes. Don’t miss the chance to make an impact—join us!
Health Portfolios
Our work encompasses four portfolios: FasterCures, Feeding Change, Future of Aging, and Public Health. We also work collectively to address challenges that require cross-cutting solutions.
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FasterCures Quarterly Update: December 2024
In This Newsletter Program Updates Events and Convenings Recap Recent Publications Policy Updates FasterCures in the Community Upcoming Events Program Updates FasterCures Awarded FDA Funding to Advance Patient Engagement in Medtech...Read ArticleImage
Esther Krofah
Executive Vice President, Milken Institute HealthEsther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients’ lives.
First Lady Jill Biden, Business Leaders and Experts in Finance, Health, and Philanthropy Join Global Policymakers to Address Pressing Regional and World Issues at the Milken Institute 2024 Middle East and Africa Summit in Abu Dhabi
Washington, DC (December 2, 2024) – The Milken Institute 2024 Middle East and Africa (MEA) Summit, running December 5 and 6, will convene hundreds of influential business and philanthropic leaders, health and finance experts, and policy...Read Article
Community-Based Infrastructure for Inclusive Research: Democratizing Access to Research
FasterCures’ work, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, identified numerous challenges in both the publicly and privately funded research ecosystems that make it difficult for established players to sustain and scale efforts to move research...Read Report
Protecting Youth Online: Insights and Actions for Communities, Policymakers, and Organizations
The United States is facing a youth mental health crisis. Forty-two percent of high school students reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness, including 29 percent of boys, 57 percent of girls, and 69 percent of LGBTQ+ students...Read Report
Prescription for Biomedical Innovation: Recommendations for the New Administration
FasterCures has long been at the forefront of shaping the national focus on biomedical innovation, with a singular goal of saving lives by accelerating scientific advances for all patients. FasterCures has been instrumental in advocating...Read Report
Business Leaders and Industry Experts Join Top Policymakers to Address Pivotal Issues in Health Globally at the Milken Institute 2024 Future of Health Summit
Washington, DC (November 13, 2024)—The Milken Institute 2024 Future of Health Summit opens today, gathering hundreds of renowned business leaders, health experts, and policymakers to explore and catalyze ideas to address the most...Read ArticleImage
Chad Clinton
Director, Media RelationsChad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
Using Internet to Combat Social Isolation among Older Adults
In 2023, the US Surgeon General issued an advisory titled Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, declaring loneliness and isolation a public health crisis. The advisory outlined the devastating impact of loneliness on individual and...Read Article
Joining Unexpected Partners to Find a Cure for Cancer
When I was first told cancer vaccines were in clinical trials, and I had never heard of them before, I was shocked. I was a survivor. I was a medical journalist. I was steeped in the world of cancer, and I had never heard of such a thing...Read Essay
The Power of Partnerships to Transform Cancer Care
Thanks to groundbreaking advances in science and technology, we are moving closer to eliminating cancer as a cause of death and turning science into medicine at a pace we’ve never seen before. And yet, the burden of cancer continues to grow...Read Essay
The Relationship between Community and Academic Medicine: A Reimagined Approach
Our understanding of the science of cancer has increased exponentially in the last 15 years and continues to advance rapidly with new lifesaving treatments being discovered daily. Yet our infrastructure for delivering cancer care to our...Read Essay
How Health Care Can Lead the Food Is Medicine Movement
Food and nutrition insecurity is a health issue far too big to ignore. Diet-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the US for adults. When people and communities lack access to affordable, healthy food, we see the impact in our...Read Essay
Key Trends from the Inaugural Future of Health in Asia
The 11th annual Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore, featured global leaders from health, finance, business, technology, and philanthropy discussing critical issues within the Asia Pacific region and beyond. All public panel...Read Article
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