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How do we move from a social recession to a social revival? Dr. Vivek Murthy shares lessons from his new book, Together, during an Aspen Ideas: Health book talk, with Olga Khazan of The Atlantic.

What’s it like to be a caregiver during the pandemic? How do we protect these essential workers? Watch Ai-jen Poo & Lucy Kalanithi discuss during a recent Aspen Ideas: Health conversation.

In moments of crisis, chefs and restaurant owners jump in feet first. They take action. They want to help—not just the food service industry but their communities.

Watch Dr. Patrice Harris, President of the American Medical Association, discuss the health disparities the COVID-19 outbreak has illuminated in the US and the actions needed to improve equitable access to health care, with Joanne Kenen, Executive Health Care Editor at POLITICO.

Watch Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, discuss the strategies governments must prioritize to “box in” COVID-19, lessons from other countries, and what we can expect as a “new normal”, with Alison Kodjak, U.S. Investigations Editor at the Associated Press.

Climate change is already a health emergency and will expand in the years to come.

These 15 public health leaders have demonstrated a commitment to developing cross-sector collaborations in their communities and a passion for improving the way public health communicates its value to decision-makers in other sectors.

In June 2018, the Aspen Health Strategy Group met for three days and took on hard questions related to the complex and nuanced challenges associated with chronic disease.

To meet its vast responsibilities for more than $2.5 trillion in products, the FDA should operate from a structure that best accommodates rigorous, science-based decisionmaking. This White Paper documents the growing demands on the agency and current barriers to regulatory efficiency, and provides supporting evidence for the Commissioners’ consensus recommendation on a two-step pathway to independence.

In June 2016, six former Commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration convened at Aspen Ideas: Health (previously Spotlight Health) to talk about the challenges facing the FDA. From that stage, they publicly announced their consensus view that the FDA should be transformed into an independent federal agency.