Geography plays a vital role in determining the health, wellbeing, and life expectancy of the more than 325 million people in the United States. To create a future where everyone has an equal opportunity to live the healthiest life possible...

We’re at a unique time in our history. Increased longevity is converging with unprecedented innovations in biomedical research, genomics, health, and technology to disrupt aging in ways previously unimaginable—empowering us to choose how we...

I was walking with colleagues, discussing how the latest round of health-care payment reforms would finally cure health care, when we came across the ultimate symbol of American entrepreneurialism: a young girl had set up a lemonade stand...

Health-care systems and innovation models have been moving with increased acceleration from a focus on the “care of disease” to the “care and cure of the  person.” Stakeholders have spent nearly 20 years rallying for a reality in which...

I have lived and worked as an investor and entrepreneur in New York City for over 20 years and have traveled the world and eaten in over 30 countries. When I began working in finance in 1998, I ate like most people—spending very little to...

At long last, the conversation around mental health is beginning to shift. Progress is slow and all too often still inadequate, but we are beginning to see signs of change. Governments are recognizing that mental health is foundational to...

(Washington, D.C. – Tuesday, October 24, 2017) To combat America’s rapidly growing opioid and heroin epidemic, the Milken Institute’s Lynda and Stewart Resnick Center for Public Health is joining forces with the United States Drug...