Upcoming Events
Aspen Ideas Health | June 21-24
Explore bold approaches to better health for all at the 10th annual Aspen Ideas: Health event! By creating a forum to share knowledge and experience, Aspen Ideas: Health offers a unique opportunity to turn ideas…
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Past Events
Accelerating Breakthroughs in Global Health: The Impact and Power of Women’s Leadership
March 29, 2022 at 9:00 am
Gender equity is inherently linked to achieving the 17 the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As UN Women writes, “Women are not only more affected by these problems, but also possess ideas and leadership to solve them.” Women…
Artisans Rise to the COVID Challenge
November 19, 2020 at 10:00 am
When COVID-19 hit communities across the world earlier this year, there was an immediate and overwhelming demand for PPE everywhere. While everyone struggled to find PPE for health workers and citizens, developing nations were hardest…
How Can We Tackle Health Inequities During COVID-19?
September 24, 2020 at 11:00 am
The COVID-19 pandemic has been revealing long-standing inequities that have existed for years in the United States within our healthcare system but also within our society. How can leaders in the healthcare system help ensure…
Gender in the Age of COVID
August 27, 2020 at 11:00 am
Women leaders in New Zealand, Germany, and elsewhere have set a standard for coping with COVID while strongmen in other countries balk at basic steps such as wearing masks. In addition, women scientists have published…
Decolonizing Global Health
August 13, 2020 at 12:00 pm
As countries throughout the world deal with the impact of COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed inequalities rooted in the imbalance of power between global health practitioners and those being served. Global health activists have been calling…
How can we address mental health inequities in the time of COVID-19?
August 6, 2020 at 11:00 am
As COVID-19 has illuminated the pre-existing disparities in health care, it has also shown us the mental health inequities that face disadvantaged populations. Black , LatinX, and Indigenous communities face higher rates of COVID-19 which…
Maintaining Essential Health Service Delivery in light of COVID-19
July 23, 2020 at 11:00 am
Overcoming the COVID-19 crisis and adapting to the changes that it will inevitably bring will require bold leadership and capable management. What are leaders doing to ensure that we both respond to the direct threat…
How Can We Ensure Equitable Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine?
July 16, 2020 at 11:00 am
A COVID-19 vaccine promises to tame a pandemic that has sickened more than 10 million people around the world, left millions without work, and cost national economies trillions of dollars. How can we ensure that…
Rapidly Scaling Telemedicine in a Time of Crisis
June 25, 2020 at 11:00 am
Telemedicine was already a necessity for many health care providers working with patients in post-conflict zones. We’re now seeing developed nations adopting telemedicine approaches in a COVID world. What can tech innovators and medical leaders…
What Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Mean for Africa’s Food Security?
June 18, 2020 at 11:00 am
Africa’s drive for food security is threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic, which could set back fragile gains in agricultural efficiency, market integration and climate-resilient innovation. And Africa’s struggle to feed itself will also have an…