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Katherine Sacks, PhD
Katherine Sacks is an Associate Director in health economics within the Research Department.
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Giving Smarter: Philanthropic Opportunities to Advance Bipolar Disorder Research
People of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds endure the intense shifts in mood and energy level
s bipolar disorder (BD) causes.
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Achieving Health Equity: A Multi-Stakeholder Action Plan to Address Diversity across the Clinical Trials Enterprise and the Biomedical Research Ecosystem
Clinical trials have been used for decades as the primary way by which researchers determine if a n
ew treatment is safe and effective for human use.
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Framing the Issues: Digital Mental Health in Asia
More than a decade since the World Health Organization declared “no health without mental health,”
its message bears heeding more than ever.
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Moonshots for Youth Mental Health and Well-Being: Exploration of Big Bets and Bold Goals
Good mental health is critical to overall health and well-being, but a cycle of almost endless stre
ssors, stigma, and systemic barriers to accessing quality care have brought America’s collective mental health to a breaking point.
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Internet Usage Effect on Educational Attainment: Evidence of Benefits
Since the internet became a widely adopted platform for information exchange, there has been a vari
ety of research into the effect the internet has on education.
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Lessons of the Millennium Development Goals
Did the United Nations' ambitious Millennium Development Goals improve the health of people in emer
ging regions of the world?
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The Price Women Pay for Dementia: Strategies to Ease Gender Disparity and Economic Costs
Technical Update
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Health and the Gender Gap
In this discussion paper on social and regional factors in well-being, Milken Institute Health
Economist Ken Sagynbekov examines gender-based health disparities across U.S. regions.
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Gender-Based Health Disparities: A State-Level Study of the American Adult Population
Many studies empirically investigate sex differences in health outcomes at national and internation
al levels, but our understanding of gender-based health differences across U.S. states remains opaque.
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Reducing the Cost and Risk of Dementia
Increased longevity is perhaps one of the greatest success stories of our modern public health syst
em. But along with this success comes one of our greatest challenges to healthy longevity.
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