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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...
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Featured
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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...
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Report
Public Health at the Milken Institute develops research, programs, and initiatives to activate sustainable solutions leading to better health for individuals and communities worldwide. To catalyze policy, system, and environmental change in public health and sustain impact, we approach our work in four interconnected areas: Prevention and Chronic Disease, Mental Health, Health Equity, and Employers and Public Health Priorities, which includes the Employer Action Exchange.
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Practice Areas
We are working to drive policy, system, and environmental change in public health in four interconnected practice areas.
Employers and Public Health Priorities
The workplace is a community in and of itself that can contribute meaningfully to a healthier ecosystem.
Health Equity
We explore the root causes of health disparities that drive poorer health outcomes, and health policy to advance health equity for all. Building thriving communities and advancing health equity require improving the interrelated social and economic conditions at the root causes of health outcomes. This includes ensuring that health communication, access, and delivery reflect the needs, experiences, and unique characteristics of historically excluded people.
Mental Health
In order to attain total health, we must normalize a “whole person” approach that prioritizes mental and physical health equally. To do so, we are working strategically with employers, as they are uniquely positioned to reach employees, their families, and the surrounding communities, and can help them access evidence-based, innovative, inclusive prevention, treatment, and recovery resources to...
Prevention and Chronic Disease
Prevention and Chronic Disease is an all-encompassing priority that addresses how chronic diseases are understood and managed, how populations are impacted, and how issues related to infrastructure and financing can affect health and well-being. Our Public Health initiative aims to improve health outcomes through research, programs, and policy initiatives with health equity as a central tenet...
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Most Recent Content
Hot Spots for Decentralized Clinical Trials: Reframing Old Challenges
Clinical research asks questions about how well an investigative treatment or diagnostic works, or how well and in what amounts existing treatments work by comparison. But, with a broader view, clinical research can do more. If research is...Read Article
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
Rooted in Health: How Agriculture and Health Care Can Grow Together
With chronic diseases on the rise and millions struggling with food insecurity, access to fresh, nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables has become more critical than ever. The "Food is Health" movement is reshaping how we think about health...Read Essay
The Evolution of Employers’ Role in Public Health
On the Public Health team at the Milken Institute, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to collaborate with organizations across nonprofits, industry, academia, and government. Our work with employers is one component of our larger...Read ArticleImage
Sabrina Spitaletta
Senior Director, Public HealthSabrina Spitaletta is a senior director on the public health team at Milken Institute Health. Spitaletta oversees operations for the mental health, prevention and chronic disease, and health equity programs. She leads the work focused on the role of employers in prioritizing whole-person health and develops stakeholder collaborations across sectors.
Modernizing Care for Obesity as a Chronic Disease: A How-To Guide for Employers
As a country, we face an urgent need to develop and implement public health and health-care strategies that recognize obesity as a chronic disease, address disparities in multifaceted care, focus on person-centered solutions, and eliminate...Read Report
Key Trends in Health at Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
This brief summarizes the key trends, ideas, and solutions discussed at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2024 to increase access to innovation and improve health outcomes.Read Report
Reimagining the Future of Employer-Sponsored Health Care to Drive Value: Survey Insights
This survey insights report details the responses of 72 employers across size, sector, and industry types who participated in the anonymous “Milken Institute Public Health Survey: Reimagining the Future of Employer-Sponsored Health Care to...Read Report
Employer Investments in Digital, Whole-Person Health for Substance Use Disorders
Employers seek to support their employees while normalizing a whole-person approach to substance use disorders (SUD). The response to addiction and the opioid crisis requires a whole-of-society approach, including employers of all sizes...Read Report
Advancing Innovative Treatments for Mental Health Care
More than 50% of Americans will be diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point in their lifetime. There is a tremendous gap between the number of Americans struggling with a mental health condition and those who seek and are able...Read Report
Public Health
Our Team
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Ayodola Anise
Senior Director, Operations, Milken Institute Health
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Victoria Cargill
Senior Director, Public Health
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Christina Dialynas
Associate Director, Public Health, Milken Institute Health
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Lena Flaum
Senior Associate, Public Health
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Gabby Hines
Associate, Public Health
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Brenda Huneycutt
Senior Director, International, Milken Institute Health
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Esther Krofah
Executive Vice President, Milken Institute Health
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Madelyn McLaughlin
Associate, Public Health, Milken Institute Health
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Jason Richie
Director, Public Health
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Athena Rae Roesler
Director, Public Health
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Sabrina Spitaletta
Senior Director, Public Health
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Erika Stratmann
Director, Communications, Milken Institute Health
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Anita Totten
Senior Associate, Public Health
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Sarah Wells Kocsis
Senior Director, Public Health
Public Health
Leaders
Public Health Advisory Board
The Public Health team is honored to have an Advisory Board comprised of diverse leaders who collaborate with us to catalyze policy, system, and environmental change in public health by advising on our mission, strategy, and execution of...
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