Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative

What's New

The Presidential Candidates on Health Care: John McCain and Barack Obama have completed questionnaires for the Aspen Health Stewardship Project on how they would seek to transform health care in the United States. To read the candidates' responses, visit the project web page.

Who We Are
The Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative is the Aspen Institute policy program charged with exploring critical issues in medical science and health policy and how they may affect our individual health and that of our families, communities, nation and world.

What We Do
We seek to increase public awareness and facilitate strategic dialogue to hasten the adoption of proven advances in medicine, eliminate health care disparities, and improve the health of all people. Through public programs, roundtables, policy briefings, large conferences and Internet discussion forums, we help chart the way forward by convening the foremost experts in their respective fields. Our nonpartisan approach incorporates the views of health care industry leaders, world-class scientists, physicians, economists, historians, policymakers, patients, and other key stakeholders. We make progress with targeted conversations but also by bringing cutting-edge health care and medical science to the public square, where it belongs.

Our Projects

• The Aspen Health Forum is the world’s only public gathering where laypeople can exchange ideas with Nobel laureates, prominent NIH officials, health care industry leaders and health policy experts from government and academia.
• The Aspen Health Stewardship Project seeks to suffuse health care reform with bipartisan principles aimed at helping to drive smart, sustainable improvements to the U.S. health care system.
• The Future Medicine Project addresses critical roadblocks to the implementation and adoption of new health care technologies.
• The Nutrition Initiative builds on the groundwork of the Aspen Institute Commission on Nutrition, whose goal is to become a trusted source of information on nutrition, providing guidance to the general public.

For more information on our work, visit our projects page.

Contact Us
Please direct inquiries to:

Noah Bartolucci, Communications Director
noah.bartolucci@aspeninstitute.org
Voice: (202) 736-2536