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Women's Health Network
The Women’s Health Network is a global collaborative convened by the Milken Institute to accelerate progress in women’s health. It facilitates collective action among leaders, mobilizes capital, and advances initiatives that turn promising solutions into real-world impact for women.
Health Portfolios
Our work encompasses four portfolios. We also work collectively to address challenges that require cross-cutting solutions through signature initiatives such as the Employer Action Exchange, international work, and the Women's Health Network.
Featured Thought Leadership
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Better Health-Care Access Begins at Home
My mother cared for me. Now I care for her. When she fell, she spent several days in the hospital, resulting in bills that were more than $100,000.Read Essay -
Who Should Draw the Blueprint for Better Health?
For all the progress made in health, the opportunity to achieve better health outcomes remains unequal. Innovation matters when it reaches the people who need it, and that does not happen automatically. Our challenge, and collective...Read Essay -
We Agree Food Is Medicine—We Still Can’t Agree What’s Healthy
During your weekly grocery trip, you witness three people reaching for the same branded box of granola bars. Is there some big promotional discount to check out? The first shopper is a 58-year-old middle school teacher. For years, her...Read Essay -
How We Can Give Every Cancer Patient the Best Chance to Survive
The fight against cancer is at a crossroads that can be summed up by two numbers. The first: 70 percent. That is the number of people who, for the first time, are living at least five years after a cancer diagnosis. It reflects the...Read Essay -
GLP-1s Can Transform Health: Your Pharmacy Can Help Point the Way
Ask Americans where they turn for health and wellness, and the answer is often the place closest to home. There is a pharmacy within five miles of 90 percent of Americans.Read Essay -
Better Health for All: A New Paradigm for Human Optimization
For most of modern history, we have defined health care by what happens after something goes wrong.Read Essay -
To Deliver on Health Innovation, Understand People as Deeply as Disease
We are living through one of the most consequential and hopeful periods of health innovation in decades. Advances in science, data, and technology are transforming our understanding of disease—and what we can do about it.Read Essay -
More Data Won't Fix Health Care—Collaboration Will
Health care generates more data every year: wearables tracking sleep and heart rate, diagnostics catching problems earlier, records holding decades of history.Read Essay -
Women’s Brain Health: The Health Care We Need Starts Before Disease
When we talk about making better health accessible to more people, we usually mean better doctors, better diagnostics, and better treatments. But access to better health must also mean access to prevention: the opportunity to protect our...Read Essay -
A Better Health-Care System Begins with Trust
I’ve watched our industry move through cycles of innovation, frustration, and reform. When the frustration builds, I understand the instinct to ask whether we’d be better off starting over.Read Essay -
Proactive Health Care Takes Innovation and Responsive Policymaking
When we think of medical advances, we often think of new cures or treatments. But some of the most impactful advances in modern medicine come from preventing disease or finding it early.Read Essay -
Health and Hunger Are Connected—Our Safety Net Should Be, Too
For Ashleigh Ligon, a connected network of support was essential to her family’s health. While pregnant, Ashleigh enrolled in Medicaid after her husband was injured at work.Read Essay
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