What if we required every major aging policy decision to pass a simple test: Does this align with what older adults say they want for their lives? Imagine if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state governments, and insurers...

Picture this: A young patient walks into the hospital with what should be a routine infection. But the bacteria resist most antibiotics, having evolved mechanisms to evade them over decades. The few remaining options are limited, expensive...

Antibiotics are one of our greatest scientific advancements. Their overuse is one of our greatest failures. Patients leave hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies every day with prescriptions for antibiotics they don’t need. This is not due to...

I have had the privilege to spend my career at the intersection of medicine, science, and philanthropy. As a geriatrician, I have seen the profound toll Alzheimer’s takes on patients and families. As a neuroscientist, I have studied the...

If there’s a chronic disease poised to break the US health-care system in the next decade, it’s dementia. Eight million Americans over 65 are living with Alzheimer’s today—a number expected to nearly double within 15 years. One in nine...

In every conversation about health equity, the same phrase eventually surfaces: We need to meet people where they are. But what if we went further—and built systems that start where people are?

Paying for health and wellness care is becoming one of the most important challenges of our time—especially as Americans live longer. Costs are rising, and, in many cases, insurance is covering less, leaving consumers to shoulder the...

The global health-care ecosystem is facing a unique juxtaposition—witnessing new heights of progression and innovation, yet new lows of fragmentation and vulnerability. Significant deficits in global health funding have led to programs...

In the 1968 documentary film Out in the Rural, my mentor and friend Jack Geiger, MD—recognized as one of the founders of the US community health center movement and a champion of public health and health equity—states, “The determinants of...

If the last several years have taught us anything, it is that trust is the foundation of health. Yet in many communities — especially Black, Brown, immigrant, and low-income populations—trust in traditional health-care systems is fragile...