COVID-19

In July 2020, the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF) and the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging convened the Social Isolation Impact Summit. We brought together experts in health and aging for one objective: to share...

As the past months have shown, technology both connects and divides us. Children returning to school may not have a reliable connection to their teachers. As the government distributes relief payments, cities without adequate digital...

The COVID-19 pandemic is teaching all of us the importance of resilience in our individual lives and as a society. Canada’s resilience stems from a commitment to make decisions based on scientific evidence, a spirit of collaboration across...

The COVID-19 pandemic will be a force for technological progress in certain areas, much as World War II was in aeronautics, communications, computing, electronics, and nuclear physics. Techniques for rapid and accurate testing are...

The history of pandemics shows that public health crises are profoundly disruptive. Their economic, societal, and geopolitical effects tend to be long-lasting, often unfolding over years, if not decades. All of this means investors should...

We must turn our minds to the long game of national renewal, even as we continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Long before the outbreak of the virus, our country’s future seemed in the balance. China’s ascent and the shifting balance...

The year 2020 went from being a highly anticipated year of innovation and transformation to being nearly synonymous with the word “crazy.” The reality is that we are here largely due to a number of broken systems: our health system, our...

Banks in Switzerland and around the world have played an important role through the trials of 2020, providing state-supported financing to keep local and global businesses afloat during the pandemic. We can play an equally vital role in...

There is a clear need, post-pandemic, for collaborative thinking on how to build immune resilience into older cohorts to reduce the risks of viruses such as COVID-19—and, potentially worse, deadly bacterial infections. We now know what the...