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Center for Public Health Newsletter: Summer 2022
Executive Director’s Note,
It’s been a busy few months since our inaugural newsletter!
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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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FasterCures Quarterly Update: July 2022
It has been a busy year so far for the FasterCures team as we advance programs to lower unnecessary
barriers to progress and accelerate biomedical innovations to all patients.
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Comment Letter - White House Conference on Hunger Nutrition and Health
Submitted electronically
Ambassador Susan Rice
Director of the Domestic Policy Council
The White Ho
use Washington, DC 20500
Dear Ambassador Rice:
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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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