Aspen Ideas Festival

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Quote:
When it comes to global health, there is no them... only us.. 
—Global Health Council

Audio/Video: Health

The Brain on the Stand
George Washington Law professor and frequent New York Times contributor Jeffrey Rosen speaks about how advances in... See more
What's the Big Idea?, by Arlen Specter
The senior senator from Pennsylvania advocates full funding for the National Institutes of Health and federal funding... See more
Brainology
Leading developmental psychologist Carol Dweck reviews her research on how praising students' intelligence undermines... See more
A Cure for Breast Cancer: The Road Ahead
Dr. Larry Norton, one of the nation's leading oncology researchers and deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer... See more
Inside the Forbidden City: New Tools for Prying Open the...
"Two of neurology's top minds, Marcus Raichle, MD and Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, MD, will examine how high-tech marvels... See more
The New Consumerism: Shifting from a Wholesale to a Retail...
The health industry's center of gravity is shifting. The inability of managed care and other current platforms to stem... See more

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Fact: Health
During the 2009 federal fiscal year, 19.5 million low-income children received free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program.  Unfortunately, just 2.2 million of these same income-eligible children participated in the Summer Food Service Program that same year.
—Feedingamerica.org