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![Health Fellow Spotlight: Maymunah Yusuf Kadiri](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2ebe269c-7944-4789-b43c-cd2257ed4c93/SpotlightBlogHeroImage-2.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=637%2C0%2C901%2C900&w=290)
Meet Maymunah Yusuf Kadiri (aka Dr. May), a 2024 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow and the Psychiatrist-In-Chief at Pinnacle Medical Services, Nigeria’s leading mental health center. Learn how she's using innovative technology to democratize access to mental healthcare for developing countries.
![Health Fellow Spotlight: Georgina Dukes-Harris](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ee401bac-a60e-4b5e-858c-d6d12bb88108/SpotlightBlogHeroImage.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=653%2C0%2C901%2C900&w=290)
Meet Georgina Dukes-Harris, a 2024 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow and the Founder of Swishvo. Having experienced critical gaps in maternal healthcare firsthand, she's on a mission to use technology to help connect mothers with doulas, midwives, and nutritionists, to support safe birthing experiences for all.
![A Wave-Powered Solution to the Water Crisis](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/20a4ed91-40c8-468c-8411-4a5c6201810c/AIFStockHeroImages1.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1304%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=290)
Water scarcity is a major concern as the planet warms. Desalination has emerged as a workable solution, but traditional methods tend to be energy-intensive and costly. We caught up with Aspen Ideas: Climate speaker Dragan Tutic, co-founder and CEO of Oneka Technologies, to learn more about this issue and the innovative solution his company has developed: a floating, wave-p...
![Inside the Health Tech Showcase](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/9624c788-b159-41aa-9895-214e0dbd1577/52997937463_763810e2b9_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=313%2C0%2C853%2C854&w=290)
During Aspen Ideas: Health 2023, four innovators shared how they are using new technologies to reimagine the common health devices we use to treat patients and improve their quality of life. Watch the demos to learn how these new takes on the wheelchair, hearing aids, the stethoscope, and more, are challenging the status quo.
![Genes: The Building Blocks of Climate Action](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/783726f3-cd12-4489-b4d3-4460cda1b759/GettyImages-1312764772.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1338%2C0%2C2603%2C2604&w=290)
What happens when revolutionary gene editing technology is applied to human health and climate? Ahead of Aspen Ideas: Climate, we caught up with Brad Ringeisen, Director of the Innovative Genomics Institute, about using CRISPR for climate change, how biotechnology can help feed the world, and why plants are carbon capture superstars.
![Can We Make Social Media Better?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/2d5a512f-b95b-478c-9ea5-ccd31f5fed8e/AIFStockHeroImages1.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1288%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=290)
Can technology bolster democracy? MIT’s Deb Roy thinks so.
![Leaders in Business, Finance, & Technology Set to Attend Aspen Ideas Festival](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/027213f6-4fc4-49ce-a999-07f334c0aac4/AIFStockHeroImages.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=799%2C0%2C3242%2C3240&w=290)
Leaders from the private sector, including CEOs, investors, technologists, and business innovators, are among the speakers attending the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer.
![How We Build the Aspen Ideas Festival](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/f66c82d8-2acc-4e91-aa39-1795f9c0232b/ScreenShot2023-04-17at11.11.35PM.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=288%2C0%2C773%2C772&w=290)
Have you ever wondered how we put together the programming for the Aspen Ideas Festival?
![Making Health Tech Work for All: Democratizing, Decentralizing and Digitizing Care](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4233da07-725e-47fb-ad47-351bcebaac6c/Aspenpanelimage16-9ratio.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=691%2C206%2C1930%2C1929&w=290)
Many people who could benefit from health advances are left behind, and it’s clear that scientific innovation alone is not enough to fill the gap. So what needs to be done? An inspiring panel at Aspen Ideas: Health tackled this question and explored emerging solutions that prioritize access and affordability. Presented by Abbott.
![Why the Next Biomedical Revolution Starts with New Imaging Tools](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e5f5312b-3441-49aa-a8cc-c46a6ad0102b/Over-expressedLaminANetworkandNuclearPores-XiaoyuShi16x9.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=589%2C0%2C1499%2C1500&w=290)
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.
![Health Fellow Spotlight: Lucy He, Aspen Tech Policy Hub](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6963ab3c-7a07-47b2-ae2b-8eca6a2a3fb3/LucyHe.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=654%2C0%2C2398%2C2397&w=290)
Meet Lucy He, a 2022 Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow who's using technology and policy change to address critical delays in patient care caused by the "prior authorization" process.
Tech tools that can keep students engaged and help guard against learning loss are suddenly front and center.
![Our Brains on Tech: How Much Is Too Much?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullac61ed0f-234c-4df1-ba65-42d61e43d45a/AdobeStock_119945834.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=656%2C0%2C3496%2C3495&w=290)
New technologies in 2020 may demand more of our already overloaded attention. Tech titans and communications companies are releasing advances like 5G and quantum computing that speed up the pace of information flow.
![This App Tells You When You’re Mean](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullc0b71621-37b1-46b2-a3f2-15da5542d339/AdobeStock_169689652.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=251%2C0%2C4000%2C4000&w=290)
What if when you posted something on Twitter or Instagram or another service, the platform gave you feedback? For example, “You just upset 10,000 people.”
![How Technology Can Transform Patient Care](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullc2bf053f-2b77-4185-9cbb-13abd3e53579/AdobeStock_238730671.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=994%2C0%2C4647%2C4644&w=290)
![Using Technology for the Public Good](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ed79cde8-0aa2-4c70-a774-640f821b420c/AdobeStock_216576321.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=609%2C0%2C3797%2C3797&w=290)
![Personalizing Education for Everyone](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/261119d9-4729-4041-9192-6f739a1a198b/ClassroomPic.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=21%2C0%2C667%2C667&w=290)
![Closing the Knowledge Gap on Climate Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/81019561-f125-445f-a743-cb6f76562508/CleanEnergyWindSolar_featured.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=313%2C0%2C667%2C667&w=290)
![11 Questions with Karla Ruiz Cofiño](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/b40fd88b-891b-4c9a-afbd-261c64cfa82d/QA-Karla-Ruiz-Cofino.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=95%2C0%2C429%2C429&w=290)
![Driving Technological Innovation When You Don’t Need to be in the Driver’s Seat](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulld0a22c73-f4ac-4d7f-afbf-87112758f0e8/48109188521_9fa853b48a_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=285%2C0%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)