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Yeen Chong
Yeen Chong joined the Milken Institute in January 2020 as the Communications Lead of the Asia Cen
ter. Based in Singapore, he oversees and manages strategic communications with a wide range of global and regional media publications and partners.
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Mark Smolinski
Mark Smolinski, MD, MPH is president of Ending Pandemics, which was spun out from the Skoll Globa
l Threats Fund in 2018 to provide scientific expertise and funding to find outbreaks faster.
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Gunhild A. Stordalen
Gunhild A. Stordalen is the founder and executive chair of EAT. She is a driving force linking cl
imate, health, and sustainability issues across sectors to transform the global food system.
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Raising an Active Generation
In the United States, a mere 21.6 percent of children and adolescents (ages 6 to 19) get the recom
mended amount of physical activity each day.
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Putting Prevention First
Chronic diseases are responsible for 85 percent of health spending in the United States. In this s
ession, we'll discuss how we can stop health care from being a system that treats the sick to becoming one that promotes prevention and wellness.
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Emerging Zoonotic Diseases and Planetary Health: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Starts
The human and economic toll of COVID-19 has shocked the world into an awareness of the dangers and
implications of zoonotic diseases—defined as diseases that transfer from animals to humans, sometimes with devastating consequences.
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Interview with K.Y. Amoako on Africa’s Economic Recovery and Transformation
COVID-19 Africa Watch speaks to K.Y. Amoako, President of the African Center for Economic Transfor
mation, about the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across the continent.
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Emerging Zoonotic Diseases and Planetary Health: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Starts
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How Community Health Organizations Can Fight Two Public Emergencies at the Same Time
Our country is currently in the midst of two public health emergencies. The first one is clear to al
l of us, as the COVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread impact across our nation like few other events in our history., Even though it is incredibly daunting to be dealing with two public health emergencies at the same time, it also provides us with a unique opportunity to develop solutions that can influence the health of our communities. , In order to solve both of these public health emergencies, we need to take immediate actions to help prevent the continued spread of COVID-19 in underserved communities and make longer-term changes that address social
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Interview with K.Y. Amoako on Africa’s Economic Recovery and Transformation
Key Takeaways
The following are a few of the main takeaways from COVID-19 Africa Watch’s conversati
on with K.Y. Amoako, Founder and President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET):, “Leaders need to build trust with the people, and there’s no better time than to build trust than when you have a crisis – that’s what leadership is about.”
, But beyond that, one thing now that we need to stress, is that you need to build trust. Leaders need to build trust with the people, and there’s no better time to build trust than when you have a crisis – that’s what leadership is about.
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