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Ep. 67: Healing, with Children’s National Hospital’s Joelle Simpson

“I will be honest in saying that I never imagined the degree of exhaustion and the multitude of issues that have come about with this crisis: on a personal level, on an institutional level, on a community level, on a national level.” For...

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Healing, with Children’s National Hospital’s Joelle Simpson

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Power of Ideas

Racism Never Solves the Problem

17 Jun 2020

“Go back to China.” That’s a phrase that I’ve heard countless times while growing up in the US and even through adult life. It’s also been uttered during this current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The irony is that through all my world...

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Bruce Y. Lee

Professor of Health Policy and Management, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy; Executive Director, PHICOR; CEO, Symsilic

Ep. 55: Test and Isolate, with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

“The fundamental decision that every society has to make is, can we suppress this virus forever if necessary? Can we afford to do that?...If you know that you're going to give up, there's no point to suppress for a while.” Nobel Prize...

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Test and Isolate, with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

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Ep. 43: Turning Point, with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

“When I was working at ground zero, I saw a level of cooperation and willingness for everybody to sort of check their egos at the door because we knew that we were all facing an external threat. And that's exactly what we're seeing today...

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Turning Point, with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

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Epidemics and Pandemics as Transnational Issues: The Challenge of the Novel Coronavirus

29 Apr 2020

“The microbe that felled one child in a distant continent yesterday can reach yours today and seed a global pandemic tomorrow. How can we procrastinate any further, or have any reservations, about a common cause – one that responds to every...

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Ep. 31: Backstop, with the Veterans Health Administration’s Richard Stone

“As we began to see in January the evolution of this virus...we began reorienting ourselves to our inpatient responsibilities and to the potential that the nation would need us to be its backstop in a healthcare system.” Dr. Richard Stone’s...

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Backstop, with the Veterans Health Administration’s Richard Stone

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Ep. 20: Sounding the Alarm, with Entrepreneur Jeff Skoll

“About a month ago in the US we had about a thousand confirmed cases; today we have about 600,000. The developing world is very much on that same pathway.” Jeff Skoll knows pandemics. More than a decade ago he launched an organization whose...

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Sounding the Alarm, with Entrepreneur Jeff Skoll

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Webinar

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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Ep. 14: Renaissance Woman, with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

From serving as a frontline physician treating HIV patients in Uganda, to overseeing new therapies for a leading biopharma company, to running a renowned health sciences university, to heading the world’s largest philanthropy – Sue Desmond...

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Renaissance Woman, with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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News Release

Milken Institute Outlines Major Efforts to Ensure Food Access During Pandemic

15 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Food Response and Policy Inventory summarizes actions being taken by restaurants, food retailers, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies WASHINGTON, April 15, 2020 – Food insecurity is a growing threat to public health as...

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