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![Lessons on Innovation, Economic Prosperity, and Cultivating Joy](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/3d486aff-c3c9-43ba-a1ae-68b8fc0a9cdd/AdobeStock_175466970.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=140%2C0%2C4480%2C4480&w=290)
![Joe Biden 2016](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/a2f101a1-f3d3-4c3f-a664-5838da242949/27982017132_465aca47c7_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&mono=4b7780&q=80&rect=2983%2C331%2C4320%2C4307&w=400)
![Joe Biden 2016](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/a2f101a1-f3d3-4c3f-a664-5838da242949/27982017132_465aca47c7_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=2983%2C331%2C4320%2C4307&w=400)
Vice President Joe Biden gets personal about his connection to cancer.
![Presented by Johnson & Johnson: Stories from the Heart of Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/80e7ba7f-5a38-4486-822e-b63a31b893e8/230622_stories_heart_027.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=666%2C0%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)
During this intimate evening of storytelling, hear directly from health workers who are innovating and advocating every day to deliver better care to their communities. Five storytellers will share their personal stories on the challenges they face; how they are driving solutions; and how we can better support their needs to ensure that everyone has access to quality care....
![Johnson & Johnson Presents: The Point of Care: Stories from the Heart of Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/b7015fce-b071-48a1-8b61-1dfb30116da3/220623_pointofcare_102.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=669%2C0%2C2661%2C2661&w=290)
With the power of a text message, the advice of a health worker fits in the palm of your hand. With innovative entrepreneurship, care becomes accessible where it previously was not. With the skill of a midwife, the pregnant woman in need of a champion thrives. Health systems may be complex, but what powers them is simple—the human beings at their backbone who are critical...
![Presented by Johnson & Johnson: Addressing Health Workforce Moral Distress](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/988a8334-6376-4677-9cd6-8e07cacf8ae2/230623_healthworkforce_010.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=666%2C0%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)
A healthcare worker shortage is today’s reality, putting safe, quality healthcare at risk for everyone. According to the US Surgeon General's Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce, the realities are that many of our health workplaces and practices are exhausting and demoralizing for our talented, caring, and overworked healthcare professionals. The emotional, ph...
![Johnson & Johnson Presents: Healthcare in Critical Condition: Who Cares When Nurses Leave?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/02ed22bf-34f9-461f-b23c-1f6c09a4866e/220623_healthcarecritical_017.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=669%2C0%2C2661%2C2661&w=290)
The nursing crisis is a healthcare crisis. Reports across the country are ominous –70% of nurses are reporting burnout, 32% are considering leaving the profession, hospital RN vacancy rates are 19% and accelerating. And the pipeline for new nurses is choked – nursing educators are leaving in droves, resulting in 80,000 highly-qualified prospective students being turned awa...
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What are the most pressing external and internal threats to the United States?
![Getting Candid About Mental Health: Senator John Fetterman Opens Up](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/5dc1631c-435f-4b49-b6f5-56666e816b22/53808552448_98231ab3fa_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1665%2C0%2C3807%2C3807&w=290)
John Fetterman was campaigning for the US Senate when he suffered a near-fatal stroke. Fortunate that a visiting physician was on duty in a nearby rural hospital, Fetterman survived and went on to win the general election. A few weeks after being sworn in, his longstanding struggle with depression intensified and he entered an inpatient mental health facility. He has trans...
![Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/f30c5810-a1e0-405a-9edc-c18a1eefca06/29289532518_1b318c656d_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
Nearly 75 percent of us experience some significant adversity by the age of 20, but these experiences are often kept secret — as are our battles to overcome them. Clinical psychologist Meg Jay, author of Supernormal, tells the tale of everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and seeking justice, even as they hide among us as doctors, artists, entrep...
![The Astonishing Effects of Exercise on the Brain](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ea4907db-6c62-411c-8b3b-7fae06470897/53012135765_4e9ffeb901_o1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
From anxiety to focus to memory to joy, physical activity has a truly astounding number of benefits on our brain’s anatomy, physiology, and function. In this interactive session, come prepared to experience real brain change, and walk away with science-based tools you can use every day to improve your brain function.
![James Beard: America's First Foodie (Film and Discussion)](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null1ca2bda7-9320-4e7a-b132-b4c19b55f31b/35466452756_35801026e0_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
A passion for food — growing it, cooking it, and eating it — has become one of the favorite pastimes of countless people. Did it all begin with James Beard? Learn why that claim is made in the new PBS American Masters documentary, James Beard: America’s First Foodie. Following the film, Corby Kummer, food writer for The Atlantic, will lead a panel discussion with two of Am...
![Can Placebos Cure Pain?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null37007056-913f-496f-8571-e079ba2b0843/27604548590_d79f8540bc_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=259%2C0%2C1081%2C1081&w=290)
In the face of a spiraling opioid epidemic, alternatives for addressing chronic pain are essential. Taking a placebo may turn out to be just the prescription we need. Neuroscientists have discovered that a pill with no pharmaceutically active ingredients can reduce responses in the brain’s pain centers, and trigger the release of endorphins, the body’s own chemical pain re...
![Reimagining Elder Care in the United States](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/22ecfc3a-8bf9-45d4-9588-af553cb30585/42983890341_c6792577b0_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
The US is aging – between 2012 and 2050, the number of adults over age 60 will jump from 43 to 84 million, representing about 20 percent of the population. Meanwhile, smaller and more scattered families will mean greater numbers of people growing old alone. Fostering the social connections and cross-generational interactions that are so essential to healthy aging has becom...
![Promise and Perils of Artificial Intelligence](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2fcee66e-bef8-468c-94ee-da8cbcbc76be/53807733969_1568b9912b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1808%2C0%2C4640%2C4640&w=290)
AI is transforming health, with implications for early disease detection, diagnostic accuracy, medical decision making, precision surgery, and personalized treatments. By speeding data collection and analysis, it can accelerate research, refine drug development, identify disease outbreaks, and enhance remote patient monitoring. But efficiency is not a substitute for empath...
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What might we learn from the past about the current state of politics and democracy in America?
![Birthing Justice: The Maternal Mortality Crisis](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/dbfb6de8-66c3-4212-bf09-d7f8d6f1779d/52997119939_7a2b73577f_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1808%2C0%2C4640%2C4640&w=290)
If Black women bear the heaviest burdens of the maternal mortality crisis—they are 2.6 times more likely to die during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth—they are also the most determined to address it. Moving beyond grief and rage, their leadership is prioritizing culturally sensitive care, respect for best practices, and greater use of community-based models and licen...
![Get to Know a Few Members of the Covid-19 Advisory Council](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null4039b72b-ff04-4a10-8fb4-56e17cb1228c/27783540802_29905b5d58_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=231%2C0%2C1137%2C1137&w=290)
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On November 9, 2020, as coronavirus cases surge, President-elect Joe Biden named a COVID-19 Advisory Council. Aspen Ideas has been honored to host several of the council members over the years. While only a few of the talks listed here are about the pandemic, each gives a window into the speakers and their expertise in public health. Congratulations to Ezekiel Emanuel, Atu...
![How We Do It: Sex in America](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d0e7f51f-de2f-4a02-9ce4-83662422b3ce/Picture1.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=210%2C0%2C554%2C554&w=290)
Generation after generation, we’re doing a pretty good job at regeneration. Yet sex continues to be a confusing subject — laden with ignorance, taboo, and shame — and the addition of technologies for connection, gratification, and reproduction are changing the landscape of intimacy. What do we really know about sex, and will we ever be good at talking about it?
Co-Founder and CEO, Muso; Associate Professor of Medicine, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco
President of Clinical Services and CMO, Hospital Corporation of America