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Stories From the Field: Leseliey Welch
Please tell us about your background and what led you to start Birth Detroit.
I am a dreamer, a str
ategist, an entrepreneur, and a Black queer mom, bringing my lived experience and background in public health and business admi
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Milken Institute Publishes Recommendations for Philippines Sovereign Wealth Fund
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, JANUARY 30, 2023 — The Milken Institute has released a report, “Best Pract
ices of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Case for the Ph
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Justine Leigh-Bell - Stories from the Field
Milken Institute: You’ve collaborated with the Milken Institute on several occasions, including tw
o Financial Innovations Labs exploring pathways to growing the green bond market [available
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Capital Deployment: The Four Things We Need to Do This Decade to Get Climate Right
The first few weeks of November 2021 have been (hopefully) consequential for the future of climate c
hange. COP26 brought a flurry of pledges and commitments.
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Feeding Change Mid-Year Update
Dear friends,
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Fixing the Food Supply Chain Could Prevent a Future, Even More Nightmarish Pandemic
There is a clear need, post-pandemic, for collaborative thinking on how to build immune resilience i
nto older cohorts to reduce the risks of viruses such as COVID-19—and, potentially worse, deadly bacterial infections., Fixing the food supply chain would go a long way to reducing pandemic risks in the future, while massively advancing healthy aging., The area I want to touch on briefly relates to the work on food I have been doing during lockdown—specifically, the zoonotic origin of pandemics.
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Designing a Resilient Food System Post-COVID
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By designing for adaptability, trust, dignity, and agency, we can build a more resilient food sys
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Designing for Adaptability and Trust
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Milken Institute Releases Report Analyzing Costs of Higher Education
Report recommends new financing options to make college more accessible.
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Feeding the Nation During COVID-19: Food, Hope, and Recovery
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Feeding the Nation During COVID-19: Foo
d, Hope, and Recovery
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 | 8 am PT
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Making plants into products through industrial biotech would benefit from policy support, effective advocacy and sustained funding
LOS ANGELES — Industrial biotechnology can turn plants into plastics, chemicals and other products t
hat are usually made with petroleum.
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Outcome-based philanthropic giving can drive food security and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to Milken Institute report
(LOS ANGELES) Despite significant donor and philanthropic efforts, economic growth in sub-Saharan Af
rica continues to be hampered by agricultural diseases that sicken or kill livestock and contaminate crops.
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New, effective investment models work to fund drug discovery for the developing worldMilken Institute report identifies innovative financing for global health research
LOS ANGELES— The world of medicine has long been divided— between developed countries that can affor
d cutting-edge treatments and developing ones whose poor populations too often go without urgently needed care.
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