Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC)

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Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) works to develop, launch, and lead initiatives that propel scientific and medical research. We target investments that accelerate the development of tools and treatments, bringing better health to millions of people. 

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We are scientists, with a deep understanding of research ecosystems, the importance of good science to advancing human health, and how to apply the philanthropic mechanisms that will lead to long-term change.

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Philanthropy Leadership Collective

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Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy’s Philanthropy Leadership Collective is a platform for learning, peer engagement, and collaboration designed for funders across the philanthropy ecosystem. Individual philanthropists, institutional foundation leaders, and corporate philanthropy executives participate in invitation-only convenings to learn from one another, forge partnerships, and gain fresh perspectives on evolving trends and actionable opportunities to amplify the impact of their giving. 

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The Philanthropy Leadership Collective (PLC) convenes members around shared interest areas and priorities. The PLC portfolio includes the Philanthropic Investors Forum, the Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) Collective, and the Corporate Philanthropy Leadership Collective.

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Public Health

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Public Health at the Milken Institute catalyzes solutions to advance chronic disease prevention, mental health, and public health systems worldwide through applied research and expert convenings.

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We are working to drive policy, system, and environmental change in public health across three interconnected areas.

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Future of Aging

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The Future of Aging advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through research, convening, multisector partnerships, and the elevation of high-impact policies and practices.

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Feeding Change

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Feeding Change advances food systems transformation by generating action-oriented research, activating financial levers, engaging policymakers and industry leaders, and convening key stakeholders to catalyze a more nutritious, accessible, sustainable, and resilient food system.

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Through our programs and focus areas, we collaborate with cross-sector stakeholders and experts, bring together influential changemakers, convene food leaders at Milken Institute events, advance the integration of Food Is Medicine into health care, champion food system resilience and global food security, and explore how market-based innovations and public/private investment can address complex food systems.

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FasterCures

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FasterCures is working to build a system that is effective, efficient, and driven by a clear vision: patient needs above all else. We believe that transformative and life-saving science should be fully realized and deliver better treatments to the people who need them.

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Today's biomedical research system is often siloed, bureaucratic, and too slow to meet the needs of patients across the globe. We accelerate biomedical science and innovation to remove unnecessary barriers so that lifesaving and life-enhancing treatments can reach those who need them as rapidly and as safely as possible.

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Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is executive founder of the Way to Wellville, a 10-year nonprofit project devoted to showing the value of investment in community health (not health *care*) in a way that returns profits to investors and payers, and health to participants and communities.
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J. Nadine Gracia

J. Nadine Gracia is the president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health policy, research, and advocacy organization in Washington, DC committed to promoting optimal health for every person and community and making health equity foundational to policymaking at all levels of society.
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Judith Monroe

Judith Monroe, MD, is president and CEO of the CDC Foundation, a position she began in February 2016. Monroe is a former deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and director of the Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support.
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LaQuandra S. Nesbitt

LaQuandra S. Nesbitt is a board-certified family physician with over a decade of experience leading population health initiatives in governmental public health agencies. Nesbitt currently serves as senior associate dean for population health sciences and health equity and professor of medicine and health sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and is the inaugural executive director of the Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity.