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.
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Andrey Ostrovsky

Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky is the former Chief Medical Officer of the US Medicaid program.
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Erik Roberson

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Erik Roberson, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist with a focus on age-related neurodegenerative diseases. The Roberson lab studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with a focus on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of these disorders and identifying new therapeutic strategies. Focus areas include tau and its binding partners in neuronal dysfunction in AD, the mechanisms by which genetic risk factors drive AD, and how progranulin deficiency causes FTD.
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Rita Sattler

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Rita Sattler, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience and the David and Weezie Chair of Neurodegeneration Research at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI), Phoenix, AZ. Sattler is the director of the BNI Education Programs and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at BNI-ASU.
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Julia Campbell

Misophonia Research Fund Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the PI of the Central Sensory Processes Laboratory. She is a licensed audiologist, received her Doctorate of Audiology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and holds a triple PhD from the same institution.