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FasterCures and Center for Public Health Welcome Breakfast (Invite only)
Kicking off the Forum, special guests, sponsors, and speakers are invited to a private breakfast
at the Army Navy Club. This casual breakfast will provide an opportunity to network and get to know some of the other attendees prior to the day's programming.
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staff
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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video
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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Dec. 7 at 4:30 pm ET | The Silent Patient at Work: How Employers Are Doing More for Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health
The CDC reported a record 93,000 overdose deaths in the US in 2020. Though addiction may yield to
COVID-19 in the news, this grim number tells that the addiction crisis rages on, exacerbated by the effects of necessary social distancing measures.
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Dec. 7 at 9:30 am ET | Where Are We and Where We Are Headed with Patient Engagement in Research?
In the last decade, patient engagement in medical research emerged as a priority in the biomedical
research ecosystem.
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video
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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TRAIN Newsletter—December 2021
TRAIN eNews is delivered directly to organizations that take part in The Research Acceleration and I
nnovation Network (TRAIN).
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