COVID-19

It’s not that long ago that the physical pitch book was entrenched in deal-making lore, for decades thumped down on boardroom tables to quantify bankers’ expert advice on why to transact on a deal. Enter COVID and exit the physical form of...

1. Support evidence-based medicine: A key problem during the second wave of COVID-19 infection was medication misuse. Numerous drugs, none proven effective against COVID-19, were prescribed extensively, even prophylactically, in some states...

Singapore is poised to achieve at least 80–85 percent vaccine coverage against SARS-CoV-2 by the end of September 2021. Excluding children aged 12 and below, this would mean that at least 90–95 percent of the eligible population are...

In this series, we have interviewed members of our Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging Advisory Board who are leaders from business, health, academia, policy, and philanthropy. All aim to improve the lives of today’s older...

Considering how much our post-pandemic lives may change, going to the doctor is right near the top. Digital commerce was already well down the path of consumer adoption when COVID-19 hit, but a medical checkup had changed little in decades...

Before COVID emerged in 2020, the leading cause of premature death in the US was cancer. About 40 percent of Americans receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetimes, amounting to over 600,000 American deaths in an average year. The impact...

As we members of the biopharmaceutical industry look to the post-COVID-19 world, we can draw lessons from both the successes and failures of the world’s responses to this global crisis. If there is a silver lining to the pandemic experience...

In 2020, COVID-19 caught the world by surprise—this should not have been the case. The pandemic revealed significant gaps in early warning capabilities to detect and respond to emerging pathogens before they cause global harm. Given the...

The spring of 2020 was illuminating in many ways. We witnessed the abysmal handling of a public health crisis, we watched COVID-19 health disparities by race and income unfold in real time, and we were traumatized repeatedly by the sight of...