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Ezekiel Emanuel
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Diane v. S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania
Previously
![Prescriptions for the Future](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/33dec20f-fcbf-4bc1-a8b1-685fc6e8e404/35612713625_76f5b2095b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C607%2C6016%2C3381&w=400)
The world of health care, and how to deliver it, is a constant topic for headlines. Beyond congressional wrangling over the next iterations of public policy, however, what pre...
![Obamacare after Obama](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null5899104a-d01a-4ae7-8c11-00d39a0173d0/27335499624_e1ef11d604_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C59%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
A lot of the discussion about the Affordable Care Act in the lead-up to the election is focused backward. How well has it worked? What’s changed in the past six years? What we...
![Blue Zones: Can Communities Eat Their Way to Longer Lives?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null07f43efb-a53d-409d-8b60-a9573e696446/27887553746_75301b8853_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C94%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and his team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. We...
![Deep Dive: Drug Prices and Access to Medicine](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullc0d7e07a-4eeb-41b8-97d8-1cac72dcbb1c/27621077330_7420a7234f_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C7%2C1600%2C900&w=400)
The average annual cost of cancer drugs in the US now exceeds $100,000 and the price of more than 200 generic drugs doubled from 2013 to 2014. That puts them far out of reach...
![Organ Donation: How Do We Share a Precious Resource?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null09b978b0-bbc0-49e0-84b7-06cdc3b82367/29464405231_e0b0aacdeb_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C169%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
Organs are in desperately short supply. In the US alone, more than 124,000 people are on transplant waiting lists, and as many as 30 Americans die every day waiting for a dona...