The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.
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Displaying What We Do: Health
Video | March 5, 2012
Keynote Address:Sam Nussbaum, MD, Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint, Inc.
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Video | March 5, 2012
An Aspen Institute event to mark the release of “Reinventing Health Care: The Barriers to Innovation,” the first report from Aspen’s newest initiative, the Health Innovation Project. Download the...
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Video | March 26, 2012
David Agus is a professor of medicine and engineering at the USC Keck School of Medicine and heads USC’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He discusses his book...
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Video | April 13, 2012
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University; Cancer Physician, CU/NY Presbyterian Hospital; Author, The Emperor of All Maladies...
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Publication | December 1, 2011
Aspen Global Health and Development
The demographic dividend is a powerful opportunity that occurs during the demographic shift from a population with high mortality and fertility rates to longer life expectancies and smaller family...
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Publication | December 1, 2011
Aspen Global Health and Development
Today, the world’s nations must provide for an ever-growing population against a backdrop of food and water shortages, depleted resources, and a changing climate. Slower population growth would make...
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Publication | March 8, 2012
Aspen Global Health and Development
Investments in family planning yield demonstrated social and economic returns in all sectors—food, water, health, economic development—yet are one of the least well-funded areas in global health.
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Publication | December 1, 2011
Aspen Global Health and Development
Family planning empowers women, improves public health, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and builds resilience to a changing climate. The bottom line: family planning is a win-win for women and the...
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Publication | October 1, 2010 | Kavita Ramdas
Aspen Global Health and Development
Giving women and girls access to contraception offers a precious co-benefit: a substantial reduction in carbon emissions. The logic is simple: when women have the power to plan their families,...
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