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FasterCures and Center for Public Health Breakfast (Invite only)
Kick-off the conference by joining members of our FasterCures and Center for Public Health commu
nity at this annual breakfast.
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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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person
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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person
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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report
Building Community-Based Infrastructure for Inclusive Research: Lessons from the Pandemic for Federal Action
COVID-19 has focused the public’s attention on the racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes
, unequal access to health care, and some communities’ lack of trust and participation in medical research.
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video
May 4 at 1:30 pm PDT | A Conversation with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
Rick Berke, Co-founder and Executive Editor of STAT, welcomes CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to Gl
obal Conference for a conversation on COVID-19, life after the pandemic, and the future of public health.
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video
May 2 at 11:30 am PDT | Is Critical Infrastructure in Place to Respond to Another Pandemic?
One of the lessons learned from COVID-19 is that the healthcare and public-health infrastructure i
n the US—let alone globally—was inadequate for the scale of the emergency, and the costs in lives and wealth have been astronomical.
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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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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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Thursday, August 27 | 8 am PDT
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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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article
The Milken Institute Celebrates 25th Global Conference May 1-4
The four-day, in-person event features more than 800 speakers, including government officials, Oscar
winners, philanthropists, investors, and more.
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