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Ep. 22: Gaining Ground, with Amgen’s Robert Bradway

“This is, of course, unlike anything any of us have experienced before. This synchronous global shutdown caused by what is a pretty tricky virus—a virus that had a head start on all of us. But we're gaining ground fast.” Under Robert...

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Ep. 21: Ramping Up, with Novartis’s Vasant Narasimhan

“Our thinking is, how do we create a protease inhibitor that could work on future coronaviruses, not just the current coronavirus?...Fundamentally, our ability to withstand pandemics is likely going to center around our ability to think of...

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Ep. 19: First Things First, with Senator Rick Scott

“If we do anything to get this economy going again, make it easy for the entrepreneurs in this country.” As two-term governor of Florida, Rick Scott led his state through crises including hurricanes, mass shootings, and the Zika virus. Now...

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Ep. 18: Searchlight, with Senator Harry Reid

“At this stage, we have to recognize that there’s going to be some downtime here. But I think that with the experience we’ve had around the country, especially in New York, it’s something we can handle.” Senator Harry Reid knows about...

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Ep. 16: The Translator, with PCF’s Jonathan Simons

“This is why we all went into medicine—for moments like this where we come together.” For Jonathan Simons and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, global collaboration and team science were a way of life long before the pandemic. The...

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Ep. 15: The Record-Keeper, with Epic’s Judy Faulkner

“We do have a culture of ownership, of working hard, of wanting to be heroes helping heroes. That's one of the things you hear our staff say.” The story is familiar, even mythic: brilliant young student builds out a new technology in her...

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Report

Back to Basics: HIV/AIDS Advocacy as a Model for Catalyzing Change

1 Jun 2011

This report highlights how people affected by HIV rallied together and created an HIV advocacy movement that demanded change and got results. The milestones of this movement include transforming the research system through patient-driven...

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Finding Purpose in the Time of the Coronavirus

21 Apr 2020

7 ideas from a Next Avenue Influencer in Aging (Across caregiving and community, business and intergenerational attitudes, the pandemic and how we respond to it could change us forever. Next Avenue turned to some of our Influencers in Aging...

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Paul Irving

Senior Advisor, Future of Aging

Paul Irving is a corporate and nonprofit director and advisor to leaders in business, philanthropy, and academia. Irving is a senior advisor at the Milken Institute, a national advisor at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a national law and consulting firm, and a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

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Cities Must Do More to Protect Older Homeless Americans From COVID-19

21 Apr 2020

The moral test of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members, including those who are old and living in the shadows. NOT SINCE THE 1918 Spanish flu have we faced such drastic nationwide measures to prevent the spread of a...

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Feeding the Nation During COVID-19: Food, Hope, and Recovery

21 Apr 2020

.bubble-images, .bubble-images img { border-radius: 50%; } Feeding the Nation During COVID-19: Food, Hope, and Recovery Tuesday, April 21, 2020 | 8 am PT The United States is facing an unprecedented food security crisis. As unemployment has...

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