Health and Wellness

We Must End Our Separate and Unequal System of Health Care

26 Aug 2020

This story may shock you. A young Latinx woman accidentally overdosed on Tylenol. Her liver failed. Soon she was in the emergency department of my hospital, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) in South Los Angeles. We don’t...

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Elaine Batchlor

CEO, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital

Ep. 94: Immigrant Spirit, with ABH’s Anastasia Soare

“I think my immigrant spirit of adapting kicked in and I said, look guys, we need to do something. We cannot sit here and do nothing because the stores are closed. Let's start a plan of attack, let's start going online....This is what we...

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Report

Key Research Agreement Terms and Definitions

25 Aug 2020

This Key Research Agreement Terms and Definitions is part of our TRAIN program's Foundation Company Partnership Toolkit. It provides basic definitions of some common terms that come up when negotiating grant agreements. The precise legal...

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Ep. 93: Compassionate Capitalism, with Biocon’s Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“I'm very committed to compassionate capitalism, which is what I like to call my business....My products are there to help patients who need it anywhere in the world. And therefore, I believe that if I can actually produce these products in...

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Power of Ideas

Anthropause: The Quieting of the World from COVID-19 Can Lead to a Deeper Interconnection

19 Aug 2020

The world has become much quieter since coronavirus arrived. Many people are not rushing around as much, there are fewer vehicles on the road, and many workplaces are silent, eliminating a lot of human-generated noise. For the most part, we...

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Sharon Salzberg

Meditation Teacher, Co-Founder, Insight Meditation Society

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Maternal Mortality: Reducing the Pandemic's Effect on Health Inequity

19 Aug 2020

Maternal mortality is not just a vital sign of our health system, it is a vital sign of society. In the US, a woman in 1990 had a better chance of surviving childbirth than her own daughter does today. Black and Native American women are...

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Mary Ann Etiebet

Executive Director, Merck for Mothers

News Release

Milken Institute Asia Summit Scheduled for December 8-10, 2020

11 Aug 2020

Singapore – August 11, 2020 – The Milken Institute announced today that the 2020 Asia Summit will take place from December 8-10. This year’s theme, “Reconnect and Reimagine,” focuses on amplifying the ideas of industry and society leaders...

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Yeen Chong

Associate Director, Milken Institute International

Yeen Chee Chong is an associate director for Milken Institute International. Based in Singapore, he oversees and manages strategic communications with a wide range of global and regional media publications and partners. Chong works closely with colleagues in both Asia and the United States on planning and implementing global public relations and social media campaigns.

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Telehealth Expansion during Pandemic Ushers in New Era of Medicine

12 Aug 2020

However we choose to envision the future of health care, we can expect technology to play a central role by breaking down the traditional walls of the exam room and connecting patients with physicians like never before. This new frontier...

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Susan R. Bailey

President, American Medical Association

Ep. 90: Well-Being, with the Motsepe Foundation’s Precious Moloi-Motsepe

“Your well-being, your wealth, is very intertwined and dependent on other people's well-being....That is the philosophy that also drives us because we know that our children's well-being cannot be isolated from the well-being of the other...

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Well-Being, with the Motsepe Foundation’s Precious Moloi-Motsepe

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Venture Philanthropy in Action: A Case Study of EB Research Partnership and ProQR

16 Jul 2020

Venture Philanthropy in Action: A Case Study of EB Research Partnership and ProQR How are nonprofit organizations leveraging venture philanthropy to accelerate the development of treatments and cures? As part of The Research Acceleration...

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