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![Pursuing Global Vaccine Equity](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d08a37a9-c0d8-483a-9334-91e463b90d51/52994959615_12454b5a97_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1808%2C0%2C4640%2C4640&w=290)
An entire generation of children in some of the world’s poorest countries are now protected against deadly infectious diseases, thanks largely to Gavi: The Vaccine Alliance. Impact: more than 16 million lives saved, vast healthcare cost savings, and greater global health security. A leading force behind the push for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, Gavi has played a...
![Private Equity Pushes into Healthcare](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e28069f1-7c33-443a-86aa-8f7ae2a0103a/52998158232_2fc1719ce0_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=659%2C0%2C2356%2C2356&w=290)
Private equity firms are using leveraged buyouts, venture capital, and other funding sources to acquire hospitals, clinical practices, nursing homes, and other health-related businesses on a grand scale. In 2021, they poured more than $200 billion into the sector, compared to $41 billion in 2010. Investors claim their capital will expand access to care, drive innovation, f...
![Can Medicine Become More Equitable?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ac33fbe9-7a65-4852-93bf-963d0ae7aafc/52172332406_d6c782dd49_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1012%2C0%2C4024%2C4024&w=290)
In its landmark 2002 study, Unequal Treatment, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated bluntly that racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality health services than white Americans. Two decades after the IOM called out structural racism, the devastating toll remains apparent in the uneven risks associated with COVID, diabetes, asthma, cancer, stroke, and pregnancy. P...
![Presented by California Health Care Foundation: Health Equity with a Latino Lens](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7d519b78-0d99-4a50-a6ed-e10a43e9002e/230623_health_equity_017.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=666%2C0%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)
As the second largest minority group in the country, Latinos represent 19% of the population and play a significant economic, social, and cultural role. They also face disproportionate health challenges, including high rates of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. The absence of adequate health insurance, lack of timely access to care, language barr...
![Harnessing AI for Equitable Healthcare](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/634c98f5-1ae7-46b5-afe0-1a02d8e05780/240622_equitable_healthcare_013.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1581%2C143%2C2412%2C2413&w=290)
Artificial intelligence is generating enormous excitement for its potential to predict health risks, speed diagnoses, and guide medical decision making. At the same time, the algorithms that make AI so powerful carry an inherent danger of bias, as some models are known to return lower accuracy results on risk assessment or even exclude certain populations from clinical stu...
![A Radical Reframing for Equitable Health and Prosperity](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7aa764b6-2ae3-4ec6-a51c-3b3c48c0bd73/aif-2022-reframing.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=399%2C0%2C801%2C801&w=290)
Inequitable and untimely responses to COVID-19 and other pandemics. Disproportionate health impacts of climate change in Africa. Unequal financing mechanisms. Lack of reliable data and information. A dearth of leadership guided by human-centered values. These are a few of the many challenges that stand in the way of global health and development systems that work for all....
![Reimagining Equitable Systems for Thriving People and Places](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2ecf465d-02c3-4558-880b-c065eb0a73b7/240621_equitable_systems_020.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=887%2C0%2C2667%2C2665&w=290)
Traditional views of healthcare have built the environment we live in—and reinforced systemic inequities and poor health outcomes. Is our own thinking limiting our ability to truly transform community-level conditions that catalyze well-being? What cross-sector investments and strategies are required to rebuild communities through shifting power, voice and interest for com...
![Pfizer Presents: Inclusive Research, More Equitable Medicine](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6bc8c0dd-6965-4743-9e7c-8f56310c1cd5/220624_inclusiveresearch_027.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=669%2C0%2C2661%2C2661&w=290)
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to grapple with a long-standing truth: that poor diversity in early and late stage medical research remains a major threat to health equity. Overcoming barriers and challenges to fair representation in research and development will not happen overnight, nor can it be achieved by a single institution. In order to pioneer lasting and su...
![PhRMA Presents: Realizing the Promise of Health for All](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/1d476819-bcff-4471-9706-c689f4de2a50/220623_promisehealth_021.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=669%2C0%2C2661%2C2661&w=290)
America’s robust biomedical ecosystem and the therapeutic advances it has introduced are making remarkable progress against cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other serious illnesses. But much more needs to be done to ensure that all communities can access the treatments and care they need. Prohibitive costs, ingrained biases, healthcare deserts, and distrust in the medica...
![Venture Capital Enters Women’s Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/f67cfcc1-b98c-4cc0-9c6c-a0c31ecd3769/53000659151_5129fa479d_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
Untapped market opportunities, coupled with the recognition that many diseases exclusively affect women, or affect them differently than men, are drawing venture capitalists into women’s health. These private equity investors, often entrepreneurial women, are motivated by a commitment to gender equity, a supportive regulatory environment, and awareness that there are profi...
![Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, CMS Administrator: Covering Healthcare for 150 Million Americans](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/029095e4-dd6c-4214-9022-3f04633866bd/52168263148_209aee4432_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1028%2C0%2C3651%2C3651&w=290)
Through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Insurance Program, and the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides or oversees health coverage for more than 150 million people across the country. With $1.5 trillion in annual healthcare spending, CMS plays a key role in shaping the direction of the US...
![Stories of Health and Care](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e1410f6d-1668-42cf-a564-0b03240188e1/240622_healthcare_stories_008.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=763%2C0%2C2667%2C2665&w=290)
This storytelling event will feature deeply personal stories highlighting the lived experiences of health workers. Hear how they are working every day to solve challenges and deploy solutions in their own communities, closing the gap between communities and care and helping to achieve global health equity. A reception will follow the session from 5:10-5:45pm. (Presented by...
![Urban Health Challenges and Solutions: The Role of Nature](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/839ea645-e757-425f-89cd-6fc0685cd3b8/53809264886_380b2a3a78_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=605%2C0%2C4000%2C4000&w=290)
Nature does not limit its influence only to rural populations. In cities around the world, dense living conditions, lack of green spaces, substandard housing, and poor sanitation allow rats and insects to proliferate and pollution to degrade health. But if certain urban characteristics help spread disease, others can curb it, including strategically placed trees, adaptable...
![Presented by Takeda: Decoding Inequity: Building Generational Wellness Beyond the Doctor’s Office](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/abb28089-1d09-4cca-8cc8-0921c1e33c97/230622_decoding_inequity_001.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=666%2C0%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)
Eighty percent of what impacts our health happens outside of the doctor's office: from education and employment opportunities to access to housing, transportation, and quality food. A panel of global experts will explore actionable solutions to address the root causes of disparities and how to build a path forward for collaboration, community co-creation, and a shared visi...
![The Legacy of Paul Farmer, Global Health Champion](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e2cd5c9a-4e40-4c19-a486-a5c397eb6629/52168851438_053e1d27b6_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1808%2C0%2C4640%2C4640&w=290)
A giant in global public health who dedicated his life to championing equity, Paul Farmer’s death in Rwanda this year at the age of 62 is a heartbreaking loss. Passionate, blunt, and inspirational, he was a physician, an activist, an anthropologist, a mentor, a father, and a husband who rooted his work on the unshakeable principle that all people should be valued equally....
![Deep Dive: Breaking the Cycle: Health, Poverty, and the Social Determinants of Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullebad7d80-6a41-472f-a087-d13a449076a4/35485994506_e5fd6c5d26_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=290%2C0%2C1019%2C1019&w=290)
The pathway to health sometimes travels through a physician’s office, but economic stability, the physical environment, access to nutritional foods, adequate schools, and social support may be even more important way stations. These and other social determinants of health need to be considered in an integrated fashion, engaging collaborators across disciplines who have not...
![Designing Global Health Systems for the Future](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/51cbbbf9-d779-49eb-8503-980d0e42bf1e/52997552042_0e633bdf0f_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1126%2C0%2C3515%2C3515&w=290)
Leadership, gender equity, youth engagement, strong communities, and actionable research to inform health services are among the core elements of building global health systems that work better for all populations. While it is impossible to ignore alarming trends in reproductive health, the impact of conflicts, and the rise of noncommunicable diseases, a look to the future...
![Ensuring COVID Vaccinations for All](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/be0fa77c-e7c8-4a2f-bfef-900bfb8c6ecf/52168472140_90d7ce6d39_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1093%2C0%2C3557%2C3557&w=290)
Eighteen months after a COVID-19 vaccine became available, high-income countries had administered more than 200 doses per 100 people; in low-income countries, the figure was almost 90 percent less. Access to diagnostics and therapies has been likewise constricted, underscoring the imperative of new approaches to global health equity. Investing in local manufacturing and sc...
![Building for Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e89b88cc-c15b-4b64-9faf-58c367d5ac89/52997642204_fc6c971da8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=912%2C0%2C3648%2C3648&w=290)
Human-centered architecture puts user needs at the center of the buildings in which people work, play, learn, and heal, recognizing that design decisions play a potent role in mental and physical wellbeing. In clinical settings, health-promoting spaces are easy for patients and visitors to navigate, let in natural light, minimize intrusive noise, and foster respect for hum...
![CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Talks about Costs, Coverage, Access and Innovation](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4e94aede-649f-4d83-bd42-c006070650d4/53808779490_80be4a8e4b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1934%2C0%2C3035%2C3034&w=290)
The 3M’s—Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces—cover more than 160 million people across the country, nearly one in two Americans. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) negotiates drug prices in line with Congressional mandates, issues Medicaid eligibility guidelines, provides guardrails for...