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Meet Kyaw Thu Htet, 2023 Festival Fellow and founder of Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS), who is working to build a food-secure future by leveraging smallholder farms in developing countries.

Meet Roopan Gill, a 2023 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow who’s co-creating a digital support system with communities to help empower women and girls to take charge of their reproductive healthcare.

Have you ever wondered how we put together the programming for the Aspen Ideas Festival?

Soon, we may be able to visualize any biological process in the human body, at any scale, in real time. Here’s what it will take to get there. Presented by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Our changing climate represents one of the greatest challenges to health for the 21st century. Though all of humankind is at risk, communities with weak health and public health infrastructure are the least equipped to cope with the impacts. We must take urgent steps now to develop effective, long-term, and sustainable climate health action. Presented by CDC Foundation.

Meet Gitanjali Rao, a 2022 Aspen Ideas: Health speaker with a goal to create global change by starting an innovation movement of teens looking to make a difference.

Meet Lea Masamo, a 2022 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow who's building a movement of people living with sickle cell disease to advocate for programs and policies needed to improve access to quality health care.

Meet Neale Batra, a 2022 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow who's on a mission make the field of epidemiology more efficient, collaborative, and equitable through open-source software and training resources.

Jason Bordoff, Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, reflects on the tension between energy affordability and climate ambition and what is necessary for a just energy transition.

Our favorite books about climate: up-close looks at communities impacted by warming, riveting stories that center the natural world, and bold, comprehensive solutions.

As a result of the global pandemic, economic gains for underserved populations — including women and communities of color — have reversed course. Improving the financial health of women is essential to building prosperous and resilient communities. Presented by PayPal.

Building on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are significant opportunities to expand the use of rapid testing to address many health challenges around the world- from infectious diseases like malaria and HIV to non-infectious health needs like prenatal care. Learn how Abbott is intentionally approaching product development to democratize, decentralize and...

Taking inspiration from the Aspen Ideas Festival, scholars from around the globe will design and lead projects to foster change in their communities.

Far too often, we highlight the failures—the diseases that caused thousands of deaths, cost billions of dollars and permanently changed our world. But just as noteworthy are the successes—the disease outbreaks that were swiftly and effectively contained.

The idea of unity is a compassionate, hopeful aspiration for a country ravaged by a global pandemic, racial injustice, economic downturn and mob violence.

Hope Solo's lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation for violating the Equal Pay Act is an active case and, if won, would set a new precedent for women in sports and beyond.

To help combat climate change, one entrepreneur is working to shift mindsets and change behavior around the way people eat.

Former Ebola czar on how to make the tough choices during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Chris Coons is the junior US senator from Delaware.