Health Care

Report by cross-disciplinary team of global experts highlights urgent need for a vaccine that can protect the world against influenza; provides bold, actionable recommendations.

The Sabin-Aspen Vaccine Science & Policy Group convened in 2018 to explore challenges and opportunities to develop a universal influenza vaccine. The group’s recommendations on how to overcome the scientific, financial and organizational barriers to developing a vaccine are synthesized in this report published in July 2019.

An expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mindset.

Can doctors teach people how to parent?

A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.

To protect a population’s health, governments might have to think beyond access to care.

Local empowerment, communication technology, hub-and-spoke models that link primary care providers to specialists, and greater resource commitments are among the strategies bringing more care to historically underserved areas.

notOK app creators Hannah and Charlie Lucas talk with Dan Porterfield about mental health.

Watch Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield’s opening remarks during Aspen Ideas: Health 2019.