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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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report
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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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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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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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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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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