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Policy Brief: Improving Women, Infants, and Children’s Access to Food and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
To address the impact that the COVID-19 virus is having on food access, this issue brief highlights
recent policies and puts forward a recommendation to ensure that the over 6 million individuals who participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Pro
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Getting Our Health Priorities in Order: Prevention, Research, and Treatment
The promise of medical research and public health to enhance and extend lives has never been great
er. Regrettably, the obstacles to funding and delivering innovation remain substantial.
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Reducing the Health and Economic Burden of Chronic Disease
Leaders in health explore ways to evolve from an illness-driven health system to one that pro
motes prevention and rewards wellness, easing health and economic burdens on individuals and communities.
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Start-up Nations: Creating Laboratories for Developing Economies
Emerging and frontier markets have eclipsed the advanced economies in GDP share and growth, just a
s the New World surpassed the Old at the end of the 19th century.
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Building Tomorrow's Agents of Change Across Africa
By the close of the century, sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's most populous region. Growth a
nd prosperity will depend not on natural resources, but on the talent and entrepreneurial energy of the region's young professionals.
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Mobilizing Stalled Assets from Big Pharma for Neglected Patient Groups
As part of the BRIDGE initiative, FasterCures seeks to highlight novel partnerships involving deprio
ritized drugs that can serve as models for future transactio
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Closing the Data Gap to Rebuild a More Inclusive and Sustainable Economy
As the past months have shown, technology both connects and divides us. Children returning to school
may not have a reliable connection to their teachers., Every sector, and every company, can play a vital role in leveraging knowledge and information for social impact., Mayor Nutter’s words struck a deep chord for me. It crystalized much of what we’ve been working toward at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
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Longevity and Philanthropy: Wallis Annenberg GenSpace on Reimagining Aging
The writer Martha Beck once said this of growing old: “Everybody has to do it, but I always believed
an exception would be made in my case.”, We have to start seeing and valuing older people as the very embodiment of the strength, wisdom, and spirit of society.
, The simple fact is that aging is a cultural and social phenomenon as much as it is a biological one. But unlike those societies that actually revere the elderly for their experience and wisdom, our American culture too often regards them with pity.
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