Public Health

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Nutrition as Health: Advancing Food Is Medicine

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated wider understanding of the relationship among diet, food security, and health. Health insurance companies are uniquely positioned to improve well-being and reduce health disparities through nutrition...
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Andrew Renda and R.J. Briscione

2022 Policy Priorities and Solutions

The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life. With a focus on financial, physical, mental and environmental health, we bring together the best ideas...
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Why We Need An 'All-of-Society' Approach to Mental Health

Finally! Through a confluence of events—the pandemic, a reckoning around racial injustice and health inequities, a recognition of the impact of social media on mental health, and influencers speaking out about their own mental health—we now...
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Patrice Harris

Co-Founder and CEO, eMed; 174th President, American Medical Association

Milken Institute Outlines Next Steps for Mobilizing an Early Warning System for Pandemics

Washington, DC, March 30, 2022—Recognizing the most effective way to combat the next pandemic is to start planning for it now, FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, released key considerations and next steps for mobilizing an early...
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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.